cans

Meaning of cans

noun
  1. A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
  2. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  3. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  4. A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
    Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
  5. Buttocks.
  6. Jail or prison.
    Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
  7. (in the plural) Headphones.
  8. A drinking cup.
  9. A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
  10. A chimney pot.
  11. (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
verb
  1. To seal in a can.
    They canned air to sell as a novelty to tourists.
  2. To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
    They spent August canning fruit and vegetables.
  3. To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
    He canned the whole project because he thought it would fail.
  4. To shut up.
    Can your gob.
  5. To fire or dismiss an employee.
    The boss canned him for speaking out.
  6. To hole the ball.

Information about cans

Hyphenation of cans

cans

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • cans is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

cans synonyms

Meaning :

tin

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