tin can

Definitions

1. 1

   A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by…

   A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.

2. 2

   A destroyer.

   • 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;
3. 3

   An inexpensive car.

   • They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
   • We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
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   1. 4

      A motor home or trailer.

      • 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.
   2. 5

      A metal spaceship or space station.

      • For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do
   3. 6

      A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.

      • Do as you’re told, tin can!

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