Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
flotsam .
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Examples
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I'd really like to see some fuzzy pipe cleaner animals with googly eyes or maybe some dried flowers, cause really, the plastic flotsom is just so mundane :D
Flotsam Plops 2010
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Part of my job in little Metropolis, IL is to come up with new Superman merchandise to sell to fans and I never once thought lets stick shield flotsom ina slice of cake next to a bowling pin.
Flotsam Plops 2010
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
Joe Cirincione: King's Struggle to Prevent "The Hell of Thermonuclear War" 2010
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Poor J.McC. is flotsom in the swirl, looking for anything that still floats.
McCain "Bitch" Video Sparks War Between McCain Campaign And CNN 2009
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And why is there a gingerbread man flotsom on the dollar store vomit cake?
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I suppose they couldn't afford to do that w/o dipping into their flotsom account though, huh?
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I *think* the "plastic" flotsom on the first one actually looks sort of like candy melt which was piped into shapes and then cooled.
Show Offs 2009
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The Thracians, who dwell in these parts, have set up pillars as boundary marks, and each set of them has the pillage of its own flotsom and jetsom; for in old days, before they set up these landmarks, the wreckers, it is said, used freely to fall foul of and slay one another.
Anabasis 2007
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
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I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsom and jetsom in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.
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