Meaning of tin can | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
2. A destroyer.
   slang
3. An inexpensive car.
   slang
4. A motor home or trailer.
   slang
5. A metal spaceship or space station.
   slang
6. A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.
   derogatory, informal, sometimes

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Examples

“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;”

“They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.”

“We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.”

“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.”

“For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do”

“Do as you’re told, tin can!”

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