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What does jetsam mean?

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Noun
  1. articles thrown overboard from a ship or boat in order to lighten the load of a ship in distress
  2. (by extension) discarded odds and ends
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Flotsam and jetsam drifted from the yacht, some having already washed ashore.
I tell him I don't know what either flotsam or jetsam mean beyond their colloquial connotations.
Those years and four children later, I was among the jetsam of my husband's midlife crisis.
Preston's troupe preferred to circumvent the chaotic jetsam of the central areas by focusing their efforts on the flanks.
A half-open closet nearby revealed the assorted flotsam and jetsam that had been cunningly arranged to produce ethereal effects.
Liberation simply travels, picking up junk and jetsam along the way, discarding it somewhere downstream, and rambling on.

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