English Dictionary

tin can

noun

A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum. / (nautical, slang) A destroyer. / (slang) An inexpensive car. / (slang) A motor home or trailer.

I recycled the tin can.

意味（1）

A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.

意味（2）

(nautical, slang) A destroyer.

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;

意味（3）

(slang) An inexpensive car.

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

意味（4）

(slang) A motor home or trailer.

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.