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can
noun- a jail or prison US, 1912
- The day he got out of the can he was in business in Union Station again and still was at this writing, though arrested again and out on bail. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 130, 1951
- “Give me four caps for this coat,” he said. “I’ve been in the can twenty-four hours.” — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 62, 1953
- Once you lose the hatred, then the can’s got you. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 263, 1967
- You’re gonna spend eight years in the can–minimum–and for what? — King of Comedy, 1976
- Metropolitan Correction Center (in other words, the new federal can on Park Row, lower Manhattan) beat the hell outa their former rat joint[.] — Edwin Torres, After Hours, p. 158, 1979
- So there I am in the can, and not the one that says “gentlemen” on the door. I’m talking about jail. — Raging Bull, 1980
- Jeannie’s husband went to the can just to get away from her, she’s such a pain in the ass. — Goodfellas, 1990
- a toilet; a bathroom or water closet US, 1914
- In the corner I spied a bucket coated with two inches of lime inside and out, with no cover; from the tip-off my nose gave me, I figured this was the can. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 33–34, 1946
- I didn’t have anything special to do, so I went down to the can and chewed the rag with him while he was shaving. — J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye, p. 26, 1951
- “He sits when he goes to the can, doesn’t he?” he asked philosophically. — Evan Hunter, The Blackboard Jungle, p. 28, 1954
- You mean if I go into latrine to relieve myself I should take along at least seven buddies to keep me from brooding on the can? — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 158, 1962
- Small hara bought me a couple of packs of tailor-mades and asked me if I wanted to go to the can. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 311, 1967
- Only man in history who ever found fulfillment in the ladies’ can of a Boston and Main Railroad car! — M*A*S*H, 1970
- the buttocks US, 1914
- Yeah, sitting on your can. Ever think of working? — Hal Ellson, The Golden Spike, p. 22, 1952
- Sat around on our cans all evening, Brownie. — Jim Thompson, The Nothing Man, p. 209, 1954
- Hey motherfucker! / All you do is sit on your can / Get out in the streets and prove you’re a man[.] — Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, p. 103, 1972
- Mr. Preston overheard him ask Miss Pliny how long she’d been “parking her pretty can at Regressive Plywood.” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 184, 1993
- an imprecise amount of marijuana, usually one or two ounces US, 1967
Derived from the practice in the 1940s of selling marijuana in Prince Albert tobacco cans. - We bought three cans of reefer for fifty dollars, and split the rest of the money. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 36, 1972
- So frequently when you’d be going to cop a few joints or a can–a Prince Albert can of the best pot you ever smoked in your life[.] — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 27, 1990
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 33, 1996
- one ounce of marijuana US, 1959
Probably from a pipe tobacco container, possibly a shortening of “cannabis.” - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 92, 1986
- marijuana UK
Probably a shortening of “cannabis” but possibly from “can” (a measured amount of cannabis). - — Richard A. Spears, The Slang and Jargon of Drugs and Drink, p. 92, 1986
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 287, 2003
- a railway tank carriage US
- — Norman Carlisle, The Modern Wonder Book of Trains and Railroading, p. 260, 1946
- a car US
- — William D. Alsever, Glossary for the Establishment and Other Uptight People, p. 5, December 1970
- a safe US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 42, 1949
- “He and two others planned a safe robbery with Decker opening the can while the others were lookouts or drove.” — Mickey Spillane, The Big Kill, p. 22, 1951
- in electric line work, an overhead transformer US
- — A.B. Chance Co., Lineman’s Slang Dictionary, p. 3, 1980
- in drag racing, nitromethane fuel US
- — Lyle Engel, The Complete Book of Fuel and Gas Dragsters, p. 150, 1968
- a Navy destroyer US
- “I just took for granted that I’d get on a can or a wagon or a carrier right in the middle of it.” — Thomas Heggen, Mister Roberts, p. 65, 1946
- a combat tank US
- “Well, then, round up three savages and put them back in their cans.” — Ralph Zumbro, Tank Sergeant, p. 108, 1986
- a Saracen armoured-car UK
- The can crews themselves had a pretty shitty job. — Andy McNab, Immediate Action, p. 24, 1995
▶ in the can
not trying to win US- — David W. Maurer, Argot of the Racetrack, p. 37, 1951
- Somebody on the golf tour used to be a hustler who went in the can and intentionally lost a lot of amateur tournaments one time. — Dan Jenkins, Dead Solid Perfect, p. 47, 1986
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