Complete Definition of "flotsam and jetsam"

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  1. nautical The remains of a shipwreck still floating in water.
  2. nautical that which has been discharged from a ship or boad, especially on the ocean or a sea, unintentionally / intentionally respectively.
  3. figuratively A collection of miscellaneous items of little importance.
  4. figuratively People considered to be of little worth.

#:The flotsam and jetsam of society were at the night club.

  1. fragments of many things

Synonyms
(2): bits and bobs, bits and pieces, odds and ends, odds and sods
(3): dregs

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