Dictionary Definition
can
Noun
2 the quantity contained in a can [syn: canful]
3 a buoy with a round bottom and conical top
[syn: can
buoy]
4 the fleshy part of the human body that you sit
on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on
your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, fundament, hindquarters, hind end,
keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end,
rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end,
tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]
5 a plumbing fixture for defecation and urination
[syn: toilet, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne]
Verb
2 terminate the employment of; "The boss fired
his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
[syn: fire, give notice,
dismiss, give the
axe, send away,
sack, force out,
give
the sack, terminate] [ant: hire] [also: canning, canned]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology 1
cunnan.Pronunciation
- a stressed
- , /kæn/, /k
Extensive Definition
Can may refer to many
things:
- Content Addressable Network (CAN), a distributed hash table protocol
- Controller area network, a serial communication interface
- Canada
- Containers
- Beverage can, for drinks
- Tin can, for food
- Bucket/pail
- A type of sea mark
- Cans (rapper), an underground rapper from Poughkeepsie, New York.
- Can (band), an
experimental music group from the 1970s
- Can (album), by Can
- Cans, the side project of HammerFall vocalist Joacim Cans
- Can-can, a dance
- Cans (theatre), colloquial term referring to the intercom system used by the crew of a theatre production.
- Slang for buttocks, breasts, headphones, toilet, prison
- A common Turkish name or surname, meaning "life". Correct pronunciation in Turkish is the same as the English name John (jŏn).
- For acronym uses, refer to CAN.
can in German:
Can
can in Spanish: Can
(desambiguación)
can in Simple English:
Can
can in Russian:
Can
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Casanova, WC, arse, ass, ax, backhouse, backside, bag, barrel, basement, basket, bathroom, battleship, battlewagon, be able, be
permitted, be up to, bedpan, behind, boot, boot out, bottle, bounce, box, box up, break, bum, bump, burden, bust, butt, calaboose, can do, capital
ship, capsule, carton, case, cashier, cask, chamber, chamber pot, chaser, cheeks, chemical closet, chemical
toilet, chokey, clink, closet, comfort station, commode, convenience, cooler, coop, crapper, crate, cut it, cut the mustard,
defrock, degrade, demote, deplume, depose, deprive, derriere, destroyer, disbar, discharge, disemploy, dismiss, displace, displume, do up, drum out,
earth closet, encase,
encyst, expel, fanny, fill, fire, freight, fundament, furlough, give the ax, give the
gate, hack it, hamper,
have permission, head,
heap, heap up, hind end,
hoosegow, jar, jerry, john, johnny, johnny house, jordan, jug, keister, kick, kick out, kick upstairs,
lade, lady-killer, latrine, lavatory, lay off, let go, let
out, load, lockup, loo, make it, make redundant, make
the grade, masher,
mass, may, necessary, outhouse, pack, pack away, package, parcel, pen, pension off, philander, philanderer, pile, piss pot, pocket, pokey, possess authority, pot, potty, potty-chair, powder room,
prat, prison, privy, put up, quod, read out of, release, remove, replace, rest room, retire, rusty-dusty, sack, separate forcibly, ship, slammer, stack, stern, stir, stool, store, stow, strip, superannuate, surplus, suspend, tail, take charge, tank, terminate, throne, thunder mug, tin, toilet, toilet room, tuchis, turn off, turn out,
tush, tushy, unfrock, urinal, washroom, water closet,
womanizer