tin can

See also: tincan

English

tin can (plural tin cans)

A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
(nautical, slang) A destroyer.
- 2000, Donald F. Myers, Your War, My War: A Marine in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 305:
  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;
(slang) An inexpensive car.
- 2010, Heather Vogel Frederick, The Mother-Daughter Book Club, →ISBN, page 21:
  They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
- 2016, Liz Nugent, Lying In Wait, →ISBN, page 134:
  We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.
(slang) A motor home or trailer.
- 2007, Errol L. Sweetser, Quest for the Ridge: A Childhood Adventure, →ISBN, page 34:
  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.

container

Burmese: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罐頭／罐头 (zh) (guàntou, guàntóu)
Czech: plechovka (cs) f
Danish: konservesdåse c
Estonian: konservikarp
French: boîte de conserve (fr) f
Galician: lata f, lata de conserva f
German: Konservendose (de) f, Blechbüchse f
Greek: κονσερβοκούτι (el) n (konservokoúti)
Italian: lattina (it) f, barattolo (it) m
Japanese: 罐詰め (かんづめ, kandzume), 缶 (ja) (かん, kan), 罐 (ja) (かん, kan)
Khmer: កំប៉ង់ (kɑmpong), កំប៉ុង (km) (kɑmpong)
Korean: 깡통 (ko) (kkangtong), 캔 (kaen)
Lao: ກະປ່ອງ (ka pǭng)
Portuguese: latinha f
Russian: жестя́нка (ru) f (žestjánka), консе́рвная ба́нка (ru) f (konsérvnaja bánka), ба́нка (ru) f (bánka), консе́рва f (konsérva)
Thai: กระป๋อง (th) (grà-bpɔ̌ng), ปี๊บ (bpíip)
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can