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cansnounpl. of can a metal container in the shape of a cylinderthe shelter stores huge cans of water for an emergency a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custodythe racketeers were rounded up and thrown in the can bastilles, big houses(slang), bridewells, brigs, calabooses, clinks(slang), coolers, coops, guardrooms, hocks, holds, hoosegows, jailhouses, jails, joints(slang), jugs, lockups, nicks(British slang), penitentiaries, pens, pokeys(slang), prisons, quods(British slang), slammers, slams, stirs(slang), stockades, tolbooths(Scottish) bull pens, cages, cells, holes, tanksblocks, wardsglasshouses(British), guardhouses, hulksconcentration camps, gulags, labor camps, prison camps, stalags, work campsdungeons, keeps, oubliettesreformatories, reform schools, training schools outsides a room furnished with a fixture for flushing body wasteI excused myself and asked if I could use the can bathrooms, baths, bogs(British), cloakrooms(British), comfort stations, conveniences(chiefly British), heads, johns, latrines, lavatories, loos(chiefly British), potties, restrooms, toilets, washrooms, water closets commodes, pans(British), potsgarderobes, jakes, outhouses, privieshalf baths, powder roomsladies(chiefly British), ladies' rooms, men's rooms the part of the body upon which someone sitshe fell on the ice and landed on his can backsides, behinds, booties(slang), bottoms, breeches, bums, buns, buttocks, butts, cabooses, cheeks, derrieres(or derrières), duffs, fannies, fundaments, hams, haunches, heinies(slang), hunkers, keisters(also keesters, slang), nates, posteriors, rear ends, rears, rumps, seats, tail ends, tails, tushes(slang) beams, sternsmoons(slang) slangto bring (as an action or operation) to an immediate endcan the chatter, or I'm kicking you out of this library breaks, breaks off, breaks up, ceases, cuts off, cuts out, desists (from), discontinues, drops, ends, gives over, halts, knocks off, lays off, leaves off, packs (up or in), quits, shuts off, stops completes, concludes, finishescloses (down)deactivatesblockades, blocks, dams, delays, detains, hinders, holds, holds back, impedes, kiboshes, obstructs, stemscalls, suspendsarrests, brakes, checks, clamps down, reins (in), squashes, squelches, stamps, stanches(or staunches), stunts, suppresses, turns backpauses, stays, suspendsabolishes, aborts, annuls, demolishes, destroys, dissolves, kills, ruins, scuttles, snuffs has done with, puts the kibosh on carries on, continues, follows through (with), keeps up, runs onadvances, proceeds, progressesactuates, drives, impels, propels, stirs to let go from office, service, or employmentthe cashier was summarily canned for stealing from the registers axes, bounces, cashiers, discharges, dismisses, fires, musters out, pink-slips, releases, removes, retires, sacks, terminates, turns off downsizes, excesses, furloughs, lays off, trimsboots (out), chucks (out), drums (out), kicks out, throws out, unseatsseparates sends packing, shows (someone) the door employs, engages, hires, retains, signs (up or on), takes on keepsreemploys, rehirescontracts, subcontractsrecruits |