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1. Airtight sealed metal container for food, drink or paint etc.
   - tin, tin can
    
2. The quantity contained in a can
   - canful
    
3. A buoy with a round bottom and conical top
   - can buoy
    
4. [N. Amer, informal] The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
   "he deserves a good kick in the can";
   - buttocks, nates [technical], butt [N. Amer, informal], backside, bum [Brit, informal], buns [N. Amer, informal], fundament, hindquarters, hind end, posterior, rear [informal], rear end [informal], rump, stern [informal], seat, tail [N. Amer, informal], tail end, tooshie [informal], tush [N. Amer, informal], bottom, behind, derriere, bahookie [UK, dialect, informal], botty [informal], heinie [US, informal], duff [N. Amer, informal], booty [N. Amer, informal], patootie [US, informal], tushy [N. Amer, informal], derrière
    
5. [N. Amer, informal] A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
   - toilet, commode [N. Amer], pot [informal], potty [informal], stool [archaic], throne [informal], loo [Brit, informal]
    
6. [N. Amer, informal] A room or building equipped with one or more toilets
   - toilet, lavatory, lav [informal], john [informal], bathroom, water closet [Brit, archaic], closet [archaic], W.C. [Brit], loo [Brit, informal], bog [Brit, informal], jacks [Ireland, informal]

1. (cooking) preserve in a can or tin
   "canned foods are not very tasty";
   - tin, put up
    
2. [N. Amer, informal] Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position
   "The boss canned his secretary today";
   - displace, fire, give notice, dismiss, give the axe [informal], send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

1. Able to
   "fish can swim", "I can drive if you like", "Can I help you?"

Derived forms: canning, cans, canned

See also: put

Type of: body part, buoy, container, containerful, keep, plumbing fixture, preserve, remove, room

Part of: bathroom, body, torso, trunk

Encyclopedia: Can, Eyüp