shitcan
nounEtymology From shit + can, originally military slang.
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Vulgar A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
- One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:
- 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.2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152:
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- 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.2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War:
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Vulgar A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
- Everything down the shitcan.1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:
- Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:
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- For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:
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Vulgar A shoddy vehicle.
- Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:
- It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:
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- Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380: