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flotsam (s) (noun), flotsams (pl)
1. Things or people that have been discarded and cast aside and are considered to be useless and lacking any value: Jim's apartment was cleared of boxes and other flotsams.
2. Wreckage that is found floating on water; such as, the ocean: There was flotsam washing up on shore after a shipwreck had taken place.
3. Vagrant or unemployed persons who are constantly moving from one place to another one without any financial funds: For many years, cities around the world have had flotsams who have been begging for money during the day and sleeping in the backstreets at night.
Unemployed and vagrant people who are drifters or continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.
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