tin can (plural tin cans)
- A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
- (nautical, slang) A destroyer.
2000, Donald F. Myers, Your War, My War: A Marine in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 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) An inexpensive car.
2010, Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, →ISBN, page 21:They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 134:We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
- (slang) A motor home or trailer.
2007, Errol L. Sweetser, Quest for the Ridge: A Childhood Adventure, →ISBN, page 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) A metal spaceship or space station.
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- (container): tin (British, Australian & Canadian), can (US & Canadian)
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container
- Burmese: please add this translation if you can
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 罐頭/罐头 (zh) (guàntou, guàntóu)
- Czech: plechovka (cs) f
- Danish: konservesdåse c
- Estonian: konservikarp
- Finnish: tölkki (fi)
- French: boîte de conserve (fr) f
- Galician: lata (gl) f, lata de conserva f
- German: Konservendose (de) f, Blechbüchse f
- Greek: κονσερβοκούτι (el) n (konservokoúti)
- 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)
- Portuguese: latinha f
- Russian: жестя́нка (ru) f (žestjánka), консе́рвная ба́нка (ru) f (konsérvnaja bánka), ба́нка (ru) f (bánka), консе́рва (ru) f (konsérva)
- Thai: กระป๋อง (th) (grà-bpɔ̌ng), ปี๊บ (bpíip)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
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