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tin can en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
  2. (slang) A destroyer.
    • ‘What was it you said you did aboard that tin-can you came from?’ 1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 96:
    • As the tin can sailors started telling us what they thought of AKA sailors, which they said were inferior seamen habing to serve aboard an auxiliary vessel instead of a ship of the line; 2000, Donald F. Myers, Your War, My War: A Marine in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 305:
  3. (slang) An inexpensive car.
    • They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten. 2010, Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, →ISBN, page 21:
    • We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around. 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 134:
  4. (slang) A motor home or trailer.
    • I was too late as bearing down the ribbon of no return was a huge tin can piloted by two women with hair blowing over the side windows. 2007, Errol L. Sweetser, Quest for the Ridge: A Childhood Adventure, →ISBN, page 34:
  5. (slang) A metal spaceship or space station.
    • For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do 1969, David Bowie, “Space Oddity”:
  6. (derogatory, informal, sometimes) A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.
    • Do as you’re told, tin can!

Forms

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tin cans Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

tin can telephone

Hypernyms

can

Relateds

tinfoil · aluminum can

Synonyms

tin (container) · can (container)

Translations (61)

cmn 罐頭 /罐头 (container) · it barattolo (container) · ru ба́нка (container) · ro cutie de tinichea (container) · da konservesdåse (container) · sh лѝме̄нка (container) · nl conservenblik (container) · de Blechbüchse (container) · ru жестя́нка (container) · ro conservă (container) · tr konserve kutusu (container) · be кансэ́рвавая ба́нка (container) · bg консе́рва (container) · cs plechovka (container) · vi lon thiếc (container) · ar عُبُوَّةُ الصَّفِيح (container) · bg тенеки́ена кути́я (container) · nb hermetikkboks (container) · de Konservendose (container) · gl lata (container) · th กระป๋อง (container) · pt latinha (container) · ja 罐詰め (container) · it lattina (container) · uk консе́рва (container) · km កំប៉ង់ (container) · el κονσερβοκούτι (container) · gl lata de conserva (container) · ru консе́рва (container) · ja(container) · fa-ira قوطیِ کُنْسِرْو (container) · th ปี๊บ (container) · be бляша́нка (container) · is niðursuðudós (container) · uk бляша́на ба́нка (container) · ar عُلْبَةُ الصَّفِيح (container) · lo ກະປ່ອງ (container) · ru консе́рвная ба́нка (container) · be кансе́рвавая ба́нка (container) · sh lìmēnka (container) · ko(container) · el κονσέρβα (container) · ja(container) · et konservikarp (container) · be кансэ́рва (container) · ko 깡통 (container) · be кансе́рва (container) · pl puszka konserwowa (container) · sk plechovka (container) · hu konzervdoboz (container) · aht cʼetsiy ggan (container) · vi hộp thiếc (container) · sl pločevinka (container) · km កំប៉ុង (container) · uk бляша́нка (container) · fi tölkki (container) · fr boîte de conserve (container) · pl puszka (container) · mk лименка (container) · uk консе́рвна ба́нка (container) · sv konservburk (container)