English
Noun
tin can (plural tin cans )
A container , usually cylindrical , made out of sheet metal coated with tin , or (by extension) aluminum .
( nautical , slang ) A destroyer .
2000 , Donald F. Myers, Your War, My War: A Marine in Vietnam , →ISBN , page 305 :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;
( slang ) An inexpensive car .
2010 , Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club , →ISBN , page 21 :They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
2016 , Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait , →ISBN , page 134 :We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
( slang ) A motor home or trailer .
2007 , Errol L. Sweetser, Quest for the Ridge: A Childhood Adventure , →ISBN , page 34 :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.
Synonyms
( container ) : tin ( British, Australian & Canadian ) , can ( US & Canadian )
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Translations
container
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罐頭 / 罐头 (zh) ( guàntóu ) , 罐头 (zh) ( guàntou, guàntóu )
Czech: plechovka (cs) f
Danish: konservesdåse c
Estonian: konservikarp
French: boîte de conserve (fr) f
Galician: lata f , lata de conserva f
German: Konservendose (de) f , Blechbüchse f
Greek: κονσερβοκούτι (el) n ( konservokoúti )
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Italian: lattina (it) f , barattolo (it) m
Japanese: 罐詰め ( かんづめ, kandzume ) , 缶 (ja) ( かん, kan ) , 罐 (ja) ( かん, kan )
Khmer: កំប៉ង់ ( kɑmpong ) , កំប៉ុង (km) ( kɑmpong )
Korean: 깡통 (ko) ( kkangtong ) , 캔 ( kaen )
Lao: ກະປ່ອງ ( ka pǭng )
Portuguese: latinha f
Russian: жестя́нка (ru) f ( žestjánka ) , консе́рвная ба́нка (ru) f ( konsérvnaja bánka ) , ба́нка (ru) f ( bánka ) , консе́рва f ( konsérva )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
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