ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
1. : wood drifted or floated by water
2. : useless or worthless scraps cast off by a social or cultural activity
that 12th century temperament which loved to gather driftwood from the wreckage of the ancient world of thought — H.O.Taylor
specifically : social parasites or human idlers drifting along with the current of civilized life : flotsam 2, : wreckage 3
the unemployed were the political driftwood of the revolution — Political Science Quarterly