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tin can plural tin cans
A container , usually cylindrical , made out of sheet metal coated with tin , or (by extension) aluminum .
( nautical , slang ) destroyer .
2000 Your War, My War: A Marine in Vietnam , →ISBN 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 ) inexpensive car .
2010 The Mother-Daughter Book Club , →ISBN 21 :They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
2016 Lying In Wait , →ISBN 134 :We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
( slang ) motor home or trailer .
2007 Quest for the Ridge: A Childhood Adventure , →ISBN 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.
( science fiction , slang ) metal spaceship or space station .
1969 David Bowie , “Space Oddity ”:For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do
(informal , sometimes derogatory ) A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence .Do as you’re told, tin can !
( container ) : tin ( British, Australian & Canadian ) , can ( US & Canadian ) container
Arabic: عُبُوَّةُ الصَّفِيح f ( ʕubuwwatu ṣ-ṣafīḥ ) , عُلْبَةُ الصَّفِيح f ( ʕulbatu ṣ-ṣafīḥ )
Belarusian: бляша́нка f ( bljašánka ) , кансе́рвавая ба́нка f ( kansjérvavaja bánka ) , кансэ́рвавая ба́нка f ( kansérvavaja bánka ) , кансе́рва f ( kansjérva ) , кансэ́рва f ( kansérva )
Bulgarian: консе́рва f ( konsérva ) , тенеки́ена кути́я f ( tenekíena kutíja )
Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罐頭 / 罐头 (zh) ( guàntou, guàntóu )
Czech: plechovka (cs) f
Danish: konservesdåse c
Dutch: conservenblik (nl) n
Estonian: konservikarp
Finnish: tölkki (fi)
French: boîte de conserve (fr) f
Galician: lata (gl) f lata de conserva f
German: Konservendose (de) f Blechbüchse (de) f
Greek: κονσερβοκούτι (el) n ( konservokoúti ) , κονσέρβα (el) f ( konsérva )
Hungarian: konzervdoboz (hu)
Icelandic: niðursuðudós f
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 )
Macedonian: лименка f ( limenka )
Norwegian:
Bokmål: hermetikkboks m
Persian:
Iranian Persian: قوطیِ کُنْسِرْو ( ġuti-ye konserv )
Polish: puszka (pl) f puszka konserwowa f
Portuguese: latinha f
Romanian: conservă (ro) f cutie de tinichea f
Russian: жестя́нка (ru) f ( žestjánka ) , консе́рвная ба́нка (ru) f ( konsérvnaja bánka ) , ба́нка (ru) f ( bánka ) , консе́рва (ru) f ( konsérva )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лѝме̄нка f
Latin: lìmēnka (sh) f
Slovak: plechovka f
Slovene: pločevinka (sl) f
Swedish: konservburk (sv) c
Thai: กระป๋อง (th) ( grà-bpɔ̌ng ) , ปี๊บ ( bpíip )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: konserve kutusu
Ukrainian: бляша́нка (uk) f ( bljašánka ) , бляша́на ба́нка f ( bljašána bánka ) , консе́рвна ба́нка f ( konsérvna bánka ) , консе́рва f ( konsérva )
Vietnamese: lon thiếc hộp thiếc
