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Noun: cans Usage: Ireland
- Headphones
Noun: can kan- Airtight sealed metal container for food, drink or paint etc.
- tin, tin can - The quantity contained in a can
- canful - A buoy with a round bottom and conical top
- can buoy - [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 - [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] - [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] Verb: can (canned,canning) kan- (cooking) preserve in a can or tin
"canned foods are not very tasty"; - tin, put up - [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
See also: put Type of: body part, buoy, container, containerful, keep, plumbing fixture, preserve, remove, room Part of: bathroom, body, torso, trunk Encyclopedia: Cans Can, Eyüp |