tin can
See also: tincan
English
Noun
- a container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin
- (as a misnomer) a container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with aluminum
- (nautical) 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;
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Hypernyms
Related terms
- tinfoil
- aluminum can
Translations
container
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