cans

• abolishes
• aborts
• annuls
• arrests
• axes
• backsides
• barrels
• bastilles
• bathrooms
• baths
• beams
• behinds
• big houses
• blockades
• blocks
• bogs
• booties
• bottoms
• bounces
• brakes
• breaks
• breaks off
• breaks up
• breeches
• bridewells
• brigs
• buckets
• bull pens
• bums
• buns
• buttocks
• butts
• cabooses
• cages
• calabooses
• calls
• canisters
• cannikins
• cannisters
• cashiers
• ceases
• cells
• checks
• cheeks
• clamps down
• clinks
• cloakrooms
• comfort stations
• commodes
• completes
• concentration camps
• concludes
• conveniences
• coolers
• coops
• cuts off
• cuts out
• dams
• deactivates
• delays
• demolishes
• derrieres
• destroys
• detains
• discharges
• discontinues
• dismisses
• dissolves
• downsizes
• drops
• drums
• duffs
• dungeons
• ends
• excesses
• fannies
• finishes
• fires
• fundaments
• furloughs
• garderobes
• gives over
• glasshouses
• guardhouses
• guardrooms
• gulags
• half baths
• halts
• hams
• has done with
• haunches
• heads
• heinies
• hinders
• hocks
• holds
• holds back
• holes
• hoosegows
• hulks
• hunkers
• impedes
• jailhouses
• jails
• jakes
• johns
• joints
• jugs
• keeps
• keesters
• keisters
• kiboshes
• kicks out
• kills
• knocks off
• labor camps
• ladies
• latrines
• lavatories
• lays off
• leaves off
• lockups
• loos
• moons
• musters out
• nates
• nicks
• obstructs
• oubliettes
• outhouses
• pails
• pans
• pauses
• penitentiaries
• pens
• pink-slips
• pokeys
• posteriors
• pots
• potties
• powder rooms
• prison camps
• prisons
• privies
• puts the kibosh on
• quits
• quods
• rear ends
• rears
• reform schools
• reformatories
• releases
• removes
• restrooms
• retires
• ruins
• rumps
• sacks
• scuttles
• seats
• sends packing
• separates
• shuts off
• slammers
• slams
• snuffs
• squashes
• squelches
• stalags
• stamps
• stanches
• staunches
• stays
• stems
• sterns
• stirs
• stockades
• stops
• stunts
• suppresses
• suspends
• tail ends
• tails
• tanks
• terminates
• throws out
• tin cans
• tins
• toilets
• tolbooths
• training schools
• trims
• turns back
• turns off
• tushes
• unseats
• wards
• washrooms
• water closets
• work camps

• actuates
• advances
• carries on
• continues
• contracts
• drives
• employs
• engages
• hires
• impels
• keeps
• keeps up
• outsides
• proceeds
• progresses
• propels
• recruits
• reemploys
• rehires
• retains
• runs on
• stirs
• subcontracts
• takes on

• noun
  1. 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.
  2. A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).
  3. A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.
  4. A chamber pot, now a toilet or lavatory.
  5. Buttocks.
  6. Jail or prison.
  7. (in the plural) Headphones.
  8. A drinking cup.
  9. A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark.
  10. A chimney pot.
  11. (in the plural) an E-meter used in Scientology auditing.
• verb
  1. To seal in a can.
  2. To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.
  3. To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).
  4. To shut up.
  5. To fire or dismiss an employee.
  6. To hole the ball.

• She recycled all the empty cans after the party.
• We bought several cans of soup for the camping trip.
• The shelf was stocked with cans of vegetables and beans.
• He kicked the cans down the alley just for fun.
• They donated cans of food to the local shelter.

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