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'Derelict' may refer to:

★ Any article of abandoned property, especially in maritime law, a ship abandoned at sea or on the coast. Also see Flotsam and jetsam.

★ A synonym for 'negligence' (dereliction): neglect of legal or moral duty.

★ A primarily British English synonym for 'Abandoned' or Dilapidated as used to describe buildings and other man-made structures.

★ In American English, someone who is 'homeless'; see also 'tramp', 'vagrant'.

★ In United States law, land left dry by a permanent recession of the water which once covered it.

★ A fictional sea shanty from Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island and a later poem by Young E. Allison, also known as ''Dead Man's Chest'', ''Yo Ho Ho'' and ''Fifteen Men On A Dead Man's Chest''.

★ In Australian English, often abbreviated to the common colloquialism "Dero". Often used to describe a dubious looking person.

★ "Derelicte" refers to a fictitious fashion line in Zoolander.

★ In computer science, a third-party library collection of D bindings to C shared (dynamic) libraries, such as OpenGL, OpenAL, and SDL. See http://dsource.org/projects/derelict

★ A song by Beck off his album Odelay

★ A multiplayer map from the Xbox video game .

★ The Montreal heavy-metal band "Derelict". Derelict Myspaceor Derelict Home Page

★ The Birmingham Thrash Metal Band "Derelict".Derelict Homepage or Derelict Myspace

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