shit can
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Noun edit
- Alternative form of shitcan
- 1966, Grant Wolfkill, Jerry A. Rose, Reported to be alive, page 130:
- Ed and I carried piss cans ; Mac carried his brimming shit cans; he walked with his head hung, ignoring the guards.
- 1993, William J. Palmer, The films of the eighties: a social history, page 31:
- As punishment for his breakdown on ambush, Taylor is given the duty of pulling the shit cans out of the latrine.
- 2004, James F. Behr, Vietnam Voices: An Oral History of Eleven Vietnam Veterans, page 44:
- As I finished rolling around in the mud to extinguish the burning shit on my body, I looked to my left and to my horror and astonishment, the explosion had tipped over the shit can and twenty-seven and a half gallons of burning shit was rolling right for the supply tent.
- 2011, Fish Farm - Revenge Will Be Sweet?:
- Then, one day, the whole company collapsed - My job, my pension, everything - right down the shit can.
- 2012, Marcel Haigy, From Rings to Ringlets, page 91:
- Washing dishes, mopping floors, and cleaning shit cans—I did it all.
- 2016, J. T. James, Strong at the Broken Places:
- The next thing that I realized was that I was hanging upside down and then being dumped headfirst into a shit can. "GET UP, YOU SLIMY PIECE OF SHIT! GET THE FUCK UP!" he screamed as he grabbed the can, with me inside, and flipped me onto my feet with the can over my head. There is no easy way to get up when you are headfirst in a galvanized trash can that weighs almost as much as you do.
Verb edit
shit can (third-person singular simple present shit cans, present participle shit canning, simple past and past participle shit canned)
- Alternative form of shit-can
- 1994, William Vanderberg, Thrill Kill, page 22:
- Tiny, in total amazement, shit canned the glass of Miller and handed the Bud Man a can of Bud, on the house.
- 2012, Terol, War of 2012: Main Street Versus Wall Street, page 46:
- President Obama had the political capital and the support of two thirds of the American people to “shit can” this horrible “corporate” run health care system and replace it but chose to become a “corporate” puppet instead.
- 2013, Rollin Woodruff, The King's Baker, page 461:
- In spite of howlin' rollin this world is going to go bad and basically get shit canned.
- 2013, Chris Kelso, Schadenfreude, page 24:
- His boss at the denim factory pretty much told him he'd be one of the first shit canned in the next downsize.