Flotsam

Flotsam /flŏt′səm/

noun

• Goods floating on the surface of a body of water after a shipwreck or after being cast overboard to lighten the ship. 

• Discarded or unimportant things. 

• People who are considered to be worthless or to have been rejected by society. 

• The floating wreckage of a ship. 

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