Jetsam
noun
Goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress.
They found jetsam at the beach, believed to be from the shipwreck.
Often appears as...
- flotsam and jetsam
- maritime jetsam
noun
Unwanted or useless objects discarded as worthless or encumbering.
The room was filled with the usual jetsam from a teenager's life.
Often appears as...
- flotsam and jetsam
- jetsam of society
noun
Goods cast overboard to lighten a ship in distress.
They found jetsam at the beach, believed to be from the shipwreck.
Often appears as...
- flotsam and jetsam
- maritime jetsam
noun
Unwanted or useless objects discarded as worthless or encumbering.
The room was filled with the usual jetsam from a teenager's life.
Often appears as...
- flotsam and jetsam
- jetsam of society
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Origin
Originally refers to items thrown from ships, typically used in nautical or maritime contexts.
The fisherman sorted through the jetsam to find items of value.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Jetsam' can be accidental, not just deliberate discarding to lighten a vessel.
After the storm, the shore was littered with jetsam.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Distinction
In legal terms, 'jetsam' has specific meaning different from similar terms like flotsam.
The coastal management handles the jetsam differently from flotsam.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Origin
Originally refers to items thrown from ships, typically used in nautical or maritime contexts.
The fisherman sorted through the jetsam to find items of value.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Jetsam' can be accidental, not just deliberate discarding to lighten a vessel.
After the storm, the shore was littered with jetsam.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Distinction
In legal terms, 'jetsam' has specific meaning different from similar terms like flotsam.
The coastal management handles the jetsam differently from flotsam.
Pro Tip 1/3Maritime Origin
Originally refers to items thrown from ships, typically used in nautical or maritime contexts.
The fisherman sorted through the jetsam to find items of value.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Always Intentional
'Jetsam' can be accidental, not just deliberate discarding to lighten a vessel.
After the storm, the shore was littered with jetsam.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Distinction
In legal terms, 'jetsam' has specific meaning different from similar terms like flotsam.
The coastal management handles the jetsam differently from flotsam.
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Video examples
Dead Whale Carcass Feast...
quantity of food that washes up everyday on coastlines around the world but like so much of the coast the quantity of flotsam and jetsam is unpredictable nobody can rely on it alone this carcass even attracted a shy pack of wolves only
Video examples
Lucy in the Sky with...
clobbered earth our planet survived i mean obviously but not in one piece a huge chunk flew away from earth and that became our moon but ultimately we get the planets we have today and all of this other flotsam and jetsam
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The price of shame PIPE...
has hung like the sword of Damocles over my head. I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;
Video examples
Dead Whale Carcass Feast...
quantity of food that washes up everyday on coastlines around the world but like so much of the coast the quantity of flotsam and jetsam is unpredictable nobody can rely on it alone this carcass even attracted a shy pack of wolves only
Video examples
Lucy in the Sky with...
clobbered earth our planet survived i mean obviously but not in one piece a huge chunk flew away from earth and that became our moon but ultimately we get the planets we have today and all of this other flotsam and jetsam
Video examples
The price of shame PIPE...
has hung like the sword of Damocles over my head. I mean, who can remember what they said a year ago? Scared and mortified, I listen, listen as I prattle on about the flotsam and jetsam of the day;
Example 1 of 3
Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.
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Susanna Moore
American Writer
The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
Quote examples
Michael Wolff
American Author
Bill de Blasio, for his part, became the mayor of New York, surely the most powerful local political position in the nation, and arguably - after Giuliani and Bloomberg - one with a national base, one with, practically speaking, no job at all. He went from marginal political flotsam and jetsam to extraordinary centrality within a few months time.
Quote examples
Susanna Moore
American Writer
The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.
Example 1 of 2
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