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jetsom

jetsom is the alternative form of jetsam.

Meaning of jetsam

Noun

jetsam (countable and uncountable, plural jetsams)

  1. Items thrown overboard from a ship or boat in distress in order to lighten its load.
    • There she was, floating amongst the jetsam, like so much debris.
  2. (broadly) Discarded or leftover odds and ends.
    • They were the jetsam of the dot-com bust.

Forms of jetsom

pluraljetsoms

Questions about jetsom

What is jetsom the alternative form of?
Jetsom is the alternative form of jetsam.

Words near jetsom in the dictionary

  1. jetskier
  2. jetskiers
  3. jetskiing
  4. jetskis
  5. jetso
  6. jetsom
  7. jetsoms
  8. jetson
  9. Jetsonian
  10. jetsons
  11. Jetsonville

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jetsom (page history and authors); jetsam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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