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Tin can

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
  2. 2
    airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc. wordnet
  3. 3
    A destroyer. slang

    "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;"

  4. 4
    informal term for a destroyer wordnet
  5. 5
    An inexpensive car. slang

    "They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten."

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  1. 6
    A motor home or trailer. slang

    "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."

  2. 7
    A metal spaceship or space station. slang

    "For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do"

  3. 8
    A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence. derogatory, informal, sometimes

    "Do as you’re told, tin can!"

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