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Jetsam
Jetsam meaning
Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load. | Discarded or leftover odds and ends.
Example sentences (7)
But here we have it – there are those squatters at Success, on the East Coast of Demerara, who insist they just don’t have anywhere to go to put their heads down but those flimsy hovels they created out of flotsam and jetsam seemingly washed ashore.
Hang them on doors or walls to store shoes, umbrellas, dog leashes, all the flotsam and jetsam of life.
As soon as you start pushing and pulling it out of your drain, you begin encountering globs of all the flotsam and jetsam you thought you had rinsed away on a day-to-day basis.
Let’s try to make room for at least a little good news among all the political flotsam and jetsam littering the internet this week.
No doubt, camping has its charm, but our campsites sometimes look ravaged with the flotsam and jetsam of camping.
The Flotsam and Jetsam was described by the Editor-in-Chief as an ‘experiment’ meant to both poke fun at CNU and make people laugh.
The IG report suggests that this was really a case of jetsam, or rules intentionally tossed over the side by Comey to lighten his load.