flotsam
/ˈflɑtsəm/
noun
- The wreckage of a ship or its cargo found floating on the water.
- After the storm, the beach was covered with flotsam from the wrecked ship.
- The sailors collected useful flotsam to repair their boat.
- Flotsam drifted for miles before washing ashore.
- People or things that are considered worthless or unwanted, often drifting without purpose.
- He felt like flotsam, drifting from one job to another without direction.
- The old warehouse was full of flotsam from decades of neglect.
- The city's streets were filled with the flotsam of broken furniture and trash.