tin can

Noun

Meaning

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

(nautical, slang) A destroyer.

(slang) An inexpensive car.

(slang) A motor home or trailer.

(science fiction) A metal spaceship or space station.

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Examples

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. T. E. Lawrence

So, a talking parrot, three hundred people flying through the sky in a big tin can called a 747, a human being growing inside another person, and men walking on the moon don't contradict logic? Ray Comfort

A child's tin can telephone is one example of a physical dedicated channel. Source: Internet

Munroe (1900), p. 453. Although Munroe's discovery of the shaped charge was widely publicized in 1900 in Popular Science Monthly, the importance of the tin can "liner" of the hollow charge remained unrecognized for another 44 years. Source: Internet

In a reclining position, however, it became unequivocally apparent that I was trapped in a tin can shooting through the air. Source: Internet

If you think that we somehow coerced Daly into taking a particular line that is exclusive to Wired868’s supposed ideals… I don’t know how to put it diplomatically… You’re an idiot and as intellectually impressive as an empty tin can. Source: Internet

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