tin can

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
  2. A destroyer. slang
    — 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;
  3. An inexpensive car. slang
    — They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.
  4. A motor home or trailer. slang
    — 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.
  5. A metal spaceship or space station. slang
    — For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do
  6. A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence. derogatory,informal,sometimes
    — Do as you’re told, tin can!

词形变化

tin cans plural
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