canned

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kænd/

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• Rhymes: -ænd

Adjective

canned (not comparable)

1. Preserved in cans.

   canned tomatoes

2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.

   The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.

   • 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

     Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.

   • 2005, James Howard Kunstler — The Long Emergency

     The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

3. (slang) Drunk.
4. Terminated, fired from a job.

Synonyms

• (preserved in cans): tinned
• (prepared or standard): boilerplate, stock
• (drunk): See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• (preserved in cans): dried

Derived terms

• (prepared or standard): canned laughter
• canned opener

Translations

preserved in cans

• Bulgarian: консерви́ран (bg) (konservíran)
• Catalan: enllaunat
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 罐頭的 (zh), 罐头的 (zh) (guàntóu de), 罐裝的 (zh), 罐装的 (zh) (guànzhuāng de)

• Finnish: purkitettu (fi), säilyke-, tölkki-
• French: en conserve (fr), en boîte (fr)
• German: konserviert (de), Dosen- (de)

• Irish: stáin
• Italian: in scatola
• Japanese: 缶詰の (ja) (かんづめの, kanzume no), 缶の (ja) (かんの, kan no)
• Mongolian: лаазалсан (laazalsan)
• Plautdietsch: enjekaunt
• Portuguese: enlatado
• Russian: консерви́рованный (ru) (konservírovannyj), в ба́нке (ru) (v bánke)
• Tagalog: delata

previously prepared

• Portuguese: enlatado

• Russian: загото́вленный (ru) (zagotóvlennyj), в за́писи (ru) (v zápisi) (of music), запи́санный (ru) (zapísannyj) (pre-recorded)

drunk

• Bulgarian: пия́н (bg) (piján)
• Finnish: humalassa (fi), kännissä (fi)

• Portuguese: bêbado (pt)
• Russian: пья́ный (ru) (pʹjányj), бухо́й (ru) (buxój) (slang)

Verb

canned

1. simple past tense and past participle of can

Anagrams

• dancen, nanced