Meaning of shitcan | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
   vulgar
2. A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
   vulgar
3. A shoddy vehicle.
   vulgar

Examples

“One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.”

“One had done time at Mount⟳ Penang and the other had been at Yasma Boys' Shelter⟳, so our backgrounds bound us together, which was just as well: the cell was very small, with three beds, a three-gallon shitcan and no plumbing in a space about the size of the bathroom in an average Sydney terrace.”

“I answered that the rotation of the Earth couldn't be interrupted by the appearance of such a one-year volunteer⟳ like⟳ me on it, that the laws of nature were stronger than the stripes of one-year volunteers and that I would wish⟳ to know⟳ who could make⟳ me spitshine some shitcan that I didn't crap up, although I'd even have⟳ a right to do that after dealing with the swine kitchen at the regiment, after that rotten cabbage and soaked mutton meat.”

“Everything down the shitcan.”

“Five points if you put⟳ the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."”

“For two hours I made myself sit⟳ there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.”

“Very good young man. Look⟳ for my car. The shitcan.”

“It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.”

“Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own⟳ cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.”

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