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A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.
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A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
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A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
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A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
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Bob's in the can. You can wait a few minutes or just leave it with me.
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Buttocks.
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Jail or prison.
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Bob's in the can. He won't be back for a few years.
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(in the plural) Headphones.
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A drinking cup.
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A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark
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A chimney pot.
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(in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.