can
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: other: /t/
other: [kæn(ʔ)]
other: /kɛn/
enpr: kăn
ipa: /ˈkæn/
rhymes: -æn
ipa: /ˈkæːn/
ipa: [ˈkeən]
other: /t/
other: [kæn(ʔ)]
other: /kɛn/
Forms: form: cans
Etymology: From Middle English canne, from Old English canne (“glass, container, cup, jar”), from Proto-Germanic *kannǭ (“can, tankard, mug, cup”).
Senses: examples: text: I keep a can of fuel for emergencies.
glosses: A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
examples: text: Soup in a can lasts for years.
glosses: A container or vessel, especially for liquids, usually made of metal.
A sealed metal container, cylindrical or cuboid in form, typically used to store preserved foods.
synonyms: word: tin
english: Australia, Britain, and some Commonwealth nations
translation: Australia, Britain, and some Commonwealth nations
glosses: A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
glosses: A chamber pot.
examples: text: Shit or get off the can.
text: Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
text: I didn't have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving.
ref: 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 35:
text: 1977-1980, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure
If he was going to hide out in the can, he can just stay there & sleep in the tub.
glosses: A chamber pot.
a toilet or lavatory.
synonyms: word: bedpan
word: can
word: chamber
word: chamber pot
word: chemical toilet
word: commode
word: Cousin John
word: crapper
word: gazunder
word: guzunder
word: honey bucket
word: honeypot
word: Jerry
word: jerry
word: john
word: johnny
word: jordan
word: latrine
word: mingo
word: necessary stool
word: pan
word: pee pot
word: pisspot
word: piss pot
word: po
word: pot
word: potty
word: potty-chair
word: shitbucket
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: slop bucket
word: stool
word: stool of easement
word: throne
word: thunder mug
word: toilet
word: urinal
word: big white telephone
word: bog
word: can
word: commode
word: crapper
word: crapper trapper
word: donniker
word: dunny
word: head
word: highway to hell
word: jacks
word: jakes
word: john
word: khazi
word: latrine
word: lav
word: pisser
word: pooper
word: porcelain god
word: porcelain goddess
word: pot
word: potty
word: privy
word: Quincy
word: shitcan
word: shitpot
word: shitter
word: stool
word: throne
word: toilet
word: toot
word: bathroom
word: latrine
word: necessarium
word: toilet
word: toilet room
word: urinal
word: water closet
word: WC
word: cloaca
word: closet
word: jacques
word: kocay
word: siege
word: cludgie
word: neddy
word: netty
word: shield
word: six
word: facilities
word: ladies and gentlemen
word: lavatory
word: lavabo
word: necessary
word: necessary room
word: office
word: office of ease
word: place
word: potty
word: privy
word: small room
word: smallest room
word: throne room
word: cottage
word: geography
word: House of Lords
word: khazi
word: usual offices
word: restroom
word: teahouse
word: tearoom
word: washroom
raw_tags: used in Canada
word: closet of decency
word: closet of ease
word: house of office
word: necessary place
word: purging place
word: vault
word: withdraught
word: wardrobe
word: shitter
word: urination station
word: bog
word: carsey
word: crapper
word: karzy
word: lats
word: lav
word: lavvy
word: loo
word: thunderbox
raw_tags: in Australia
word: can
word: john
word: johnny
word: bogger
word: brasco
word: dike
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: dunny
raw_tags: in New Zealand
word: jacks
word: jakes
glosses: Buttocks.
glosses: The breasts of a woman.
examples: text: Bob’s in the can. He won’t be back for a few years.
text: The undercover cop never liked the Monkey Man / Even back in childhood, he wanted to see him in the can
ref: 1988, The Traveling Wilburys, “Tweeter and the Monkey Man”, in The Traveling Wilburys, Vol. 1:
glosses: Jail or prison.
glosses: Headphones.
examples: text: VVhen the vulgar ſort / Sit on their Ale-bench, vvith their cups and kannes, / Matters of ſtate be not their common talke, / Nor pure religion by their lips prophande.
ref: 1600, [Michael Drayton, Richard Hathwaye, Anthony Munday, Robert Wilson], The First Part of the True and Honorable Historie, of the Life of Sir John Old-castle, the Good Lord Cobham. […], London: […] [V[alentine] S[immes]] for Thomas Pauier, […], →OCLC:
text: SIR ANDREW: Nay, my troth, I know not: but I know, to be up late is to be up late. / SIR TOBY: A false conclusion: I hate it as an unfilled can.
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
text: Fill the cup and fill the can: / Have a rouse before the morn: / Every minute dies a man, / Every minute one is born.
ref: 1842, Alfred Tennyson, “A Vision of Sin”, in Poems. […], volume II, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 218:
glosses: A drinking cup.
topics: nautical
transport
glosses: A cylindrical buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
glosses: A chimney pot.
glosses: An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
examples: text: […] prosecution for selling and giving away marijuana, the evidence clearly constituted substantial proof that a package purchased by defendant contained marijuana where he requested "four cans" of marijuana to be delivered to himself and […]
ref: 1970, California. Supreme Court, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California:
glosses: An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.
glosses: A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.
Hyponyms: sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: aerosol can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: beer can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: billycan
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: garbage can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: jerrycan
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: lading-can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: soda can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: spray can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: sprinkling can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: tin can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: trash can
sense: Hyponyms of can (Etymology 2)
word: watering can
Derived terms: ashcan
booze can
canakin
can buoy
can deposit
candock
can-eater
canful
can hook
canhouse
can house
can kicker
can-kicking
cankin
can light
canlike
Canner
cannery
cannular
can of corn
can of worms
can opener
cantenna
carry the can
cheese in a can
chimney can
crowler
dunny can
firecan
gas can
GI can
hot water can
in the can
kick at the can
kick the can
kick-the-can
kick the can down the road
know someone from a can of paint
milk can
minican
oilcan
oil can
open a can of whoop ass
open up a can of whoop ass
rattle can
sea can
shitcan
shower in a can
spam in a can
swill-can
tie a can to it
tip the can
tomato can
water can