jetsam
- n the part of a ship's equipment or cargo that is thrown overboard to lighten the load in a storm
- n the floating wreckage of a ship
- At Tutwiler Hall, one of the campuses largest dorms, a box of facemasks shared counter space with the typical collegiate flotsam and jetsam Tuesday afternoon, and hand sanitizer .
- Picture a broad, black and noxious channel, moving with the viscous sloth of an oil spill, and pushing all the jetsam of 21st century life before it: outmoded appliances, last .
- It has become trendy to tack poems, photos, icons, logos and other digital flotsam and jetsam onto e-mail messages.