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English
Etymology
shit + can, originally military slang.
Pronunciation
Noun
shitcan (plural shitcans)
- (vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.
2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152: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.
2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War: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.
- (vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:Everything down the shitcan.
1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."
2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.
- (vulgar) A shoddy vehicle.
2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.
2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.
2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380:Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.
Synonyms
Verb
shitcan (third-person singular simple present shitcans, present participle shitcanning, simple past and past participle shitcanned)
- (vulgar slang, transitive) Alternative form of shit-can
1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198:They had to shitcan him.
1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244:But I guess we can shitcan the robbery angle, right?
2007, Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies, page 225:Shitcan that shit. I don't want it in the house.
2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, page 50:I will have to come up with a foolproof scheme to shitcan the violin.
2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun:Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.
References
- Oxford English Dictionary. "shitcan, n."
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