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can
verb- to discharge someone from employment US, 1908
- Two, almost three years ago, and then the FBI came around and they canned me. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, p. 120, 1961
- I hear Thompson got canned at Bob’s this summer. — Fast Times at Ridgemont High, 1982
- I’m the only thing those Jamaican yahoos had going for ‘em and I get canned. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 125, 1985
- Wonder if the boss’ll fire us for letting his rig get ripped off? Not that it matters since we’re getting canned anyways. — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 54, 1993
- to stop something, to cease something US, 1906
- “Let’s just can the comedy and come on, huh?” said Grady. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 217, 1957
- Can that Uncle Tom crap. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 99, 1959
- “Can the brochure, daddy,” I said, surprising myself by the Fifties jargon that so amused Myron but rather repelled me. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 52, 1968
- RIGGS: Oh, brother. This is good. I like this. MURTAUGH: Can it, Martin. — Lethal Weapon, 1987
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