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tin can
noun- a safe that is easily broken into by criminals US
- — Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 239, 1949
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 60, 1972: “Glossary”
- an older ship in disrepair US
- I know my orders are going to be for some damn tin can and I’m gonna wind up on the friggin deck force. — Darryl Ponicsan, The Last Detail, p. 4, 1970
- a citizens’ band radio set US
From one of the most primitive technical means of communication: two tin cans joined by a piece of string. - — Complete CB Slang Dictionary, p. 92, 1976
- — Peter Chippindale, The British CB Book, p. 160, 1981
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