1. Insincere talk about religion or morals
   "The politician's speech was full of cants that failed to address the real issues";
   - pious platitude
    
2. A characteristic language of a particular group
   "they don't speak our cant";
   - slang, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
    
3. Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
   "The report was filled with corporate cants like 'synergy' and 'paradigm shift'";
   - buzzword
    
4. A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
   "The racetrack's steep cants allowed cars to maintain high speeds through the turns";
   - bank, camber
    
5. Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
   "The carpenter added a cant to soften the edge of the table";
   - bevel, chamfer

1. Heel over
   "The tower is canting"; "The ship canted over in the strong wind";
   - cant over, tilt, slant, pitch

1. Can not
   "I can't believe it's already Friday"

Sounds like: Kant

Derived forms: canting, canted, cants

Type of: bunk [informal], edge, hokum [informal], incline, meaninglessness, move, nonsense, nonsensicality, non-standard speech, side, slope, talk, talking

Encyclopedia: Cant, Harry