See shitcan on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shit",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "shit + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From shit + can, originally military slang.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shitcans",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shitcan (plural shitcans)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "100 0 0 0",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
11
]
],
"ref": "2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:",
"text": "One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
200,
207
]
],
"ref": "2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
269,
276
]
],
"ref": "2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine."
],
"id": "en-shitcan-en-noun-en:receptacle_for_excrement",
"links": [
[
"receptacle",
"receptacle"
],
[
"excrement",
"excrement"
],
[
"can",
"can"
],
[
"latrine",
"latrine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine."
],
"senseid": [
"en:receptacle for excrement"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shit bowl"
},
{
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"word": "shitter"
},
{
"word": "can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chamber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chamber pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chemical toilet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "commode"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "Cousin John"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "crapper"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "gazunder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "guzunder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "honey bucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "honeypot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "Jerry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "jerry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
],
"word": "john"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"US",
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "johnny"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "jordan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "latrine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "mingo"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "necessary stool"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "pan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "pee pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "pisspot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "piss pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "po"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "potty"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "potty-chair"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "slop bucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "stool"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "stool of easement"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "throne"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "thunder mug"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "toilet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "urinal"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
27
]
],
"ref": "1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:",
"text": "Everything down the shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
39,
46
]
],
"ref": "1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:",
"text": "Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
100,
107
]
],
"ref": "2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:",
"text": "For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A garbage can or wastepaper basket."
],
"id": "en-shitcan-en-noun-en:waste_container",
"links": [
[
"garbage can",
"garbage can"
],
[
"wastepaper basket",
"wastepaper basket"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket."
],
"senseid": [
"en:waste container"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "garbage can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "garbage pail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trash bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trash can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trashbin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trashcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "waste bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "wastebin"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "28 21 48 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 24 41 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 24 45 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
49
]
],
"ref": "2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:",
"text": "Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
34,
41
]
],
"ref": "2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:",
"text": "It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
90,
97
]
],
"ref": "2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380:",
"text": "Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A shoddy vehicle."
],
"id": "en-shitcan-en-noun-en:shoddy_vehicle",
"links": [
[
"shoddy",
"shoddy"
],
[
"vehicle",
"vehicle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A shoddy vehicle."
],
"senseid": [
"en:shoddy vehicle"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shitbox"
},
{
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"word": "piece of shit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "banger"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "beater"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "bucket of bolts"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "bucket of rust"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "clunker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "crate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "crock"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"dated"
],
"word": "flivver"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "gas guzzler"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "hooptie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"US",
"dated"
],
"word": "jalopy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
],
"word": "junker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "lemon"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "old banger"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "rattletrap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "rustbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "shed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitbox"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "tin Lizzie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "wreck"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg/En-au-shitcan.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "shitcan"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shit",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "shit + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From shit + can, originally military slang.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shitcans",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "++"
},
"expansion": "shitcan (third-person singular simple present shitcans, present participle shitcanning, simple past and past participle shitcanned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "shit-can"
}
],
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
19
]
],
"ref": "1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198:",
"text": "They had to shitcan him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
26
]
],
"ref": "1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244:",
"text": "But I guess we can shitcan the robbery angle, right?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"ref": "2007, Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies, page 225:",
"text": "Shitcan that shit. I don't want it in the house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
50,
57
]
],
"ref": "2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, page 50:",
"text": "I will have to come up with a foolproof scheme to shitcan the violin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"ref": "2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun:",
"text": "Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of shit-can."
],
"id": "en-shitcan-en-verb-vS6tdn9V",
"links": [
[
"shit-can",
"shit-can#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar slang, transitive) Alternative form of shit-can."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"slang",
"transitive",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg/En-au-shitcan.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "shitcan"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Military"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shit",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "shit + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From shit + can, originally military slang.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shitcans",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "shitcan (plural shitcans)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
4,
11
]
],
"ref": "2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:",
"text": "One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
200,
207
]
],
"ref": "2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
269,
276
]
],
"ref": "2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine."
],
"links": [
[
"receptacle",
"receptacle"
],
[
"excrement",
"excrement"
],
[
"can",
"can"
],
[
"latrine",
"latrine"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine."
],
"senseid": [
"en:receptacle for excrement"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shit bowl"
},
{
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"word": "shitter"
},
{
"word": "can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chamber"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chamber pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "chemical toilet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "commode"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "Cousin John"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "crapper"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "gazunder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "guzunder"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "honey bucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"slang"
],
"word": "honeypot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "Jerry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "jerry"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
],
"word": "john"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"US",
"dated",
"slang"
],
"word": "johnny"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "jordan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "latrine"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "mingo"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "necessary stool"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "pan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "pee pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "pisspot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "piss pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"Australia",
"UK",
"dated"
],
"word": "po"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "pot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "potty"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"childish"
],
"word": "potty-chair"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "slop bucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "stool"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "stool of easement"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "throne"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"word": "thunder mug"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "toilet"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:chamber pot",
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "urinal"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
20,
27
]
],
"ref": "1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:",
"text": "Everything down the shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
39,
46
]
],
"ref": "1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:",
"text": "Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it.\"",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
100,
107
]
],
"ref": "2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:",
"text": "For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A garbage can or wastepaper basket."
],
"links": [
[
"garbage can",
"garbage can"
],
[
"wastepaper basket",
"wastepaper basket"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket."
],
"senseid": [
"en:waste container"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "garbage can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "garbage pail"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trash bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trash can"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trashbin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "trashcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "waste bin"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:waste bin",
"word": "wastebin"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
42,
49
]
],
"ref": "2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:",
"text": "Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
34,
41
]
],
"ref": "2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:",
"text": "It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
90,
97
]
],
"ref": "2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380:",
"text": "Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A shoddy vehicle."
],
"links": [
[
"shoddy",
"shoddy"
],
[
"vehicle",
"vehicle"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar) A shoddy vehicle."
],
"senseid": [
"en:shoddy vehicle"
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shitbox"
},
{
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"word": "piece of shit"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "banger"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "beater"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "bucket of bolts"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "bucket of rust"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "clunker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "crate"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "crock"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US",
"dated"
],
"word": "flivver"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "gas guzzler"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "hooptie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"US",
"dated"
],
"word": "jalopy"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"Canada",
"US"
],
"word": "junker"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "lemon"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "old banger"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "rattletrap"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "rustbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"UK"
],
"word": "shed"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitbox"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitpot"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitcan"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"tags": [
"vulgar"
],
"word": "shitbucket"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "tin Lizzie"
},
{
"source": "Thesaurus:old car",
"word": "wreck"
}
],
"tags": [
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg/En-au-shitcan.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "shitcan"
}
{
"categories": [
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Military"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "shit",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "shit + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From shit + can, originally military slang.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "shitcans",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "shitcanned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "++"
},
"expansion": "shitcan (third-person singular simple present shitcans, present participle shitcanning, simple past and past participle shitcanned)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "shit-can"
}
],
"categories": [
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs",
"English vulgarities"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
12,
19
]
],
"ref": "1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198:",
"text": "They had to shitcan him.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
19,
26
]
],
"ref": "1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244:",
"text": "But I guess we can shitcan the robbery angle, right?",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"ref": "2007, Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies, page 225:",
"text": "Shitcan that shit. I don't want it in the house.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
50,
57
]
],
"ref": "2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, page 50:",
"text": "I will have to come up with a foolproof scheme to shitcan the violin.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
0,
7
]
],
"ref": "2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun:",
"text": "Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of shit-can."
],
"links": [
[
"shit-can",
"shit-can#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(vulgar slang, transitive) Alternative form of shit-can."
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative",
"slang",
"transitive",
"vulgar"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"audio": "En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg/En-au-shitcan.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/En-au-shitcan.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
]
}
],
"word": "shitcan"
}
Download raw JSONL data for shitcan meaning in All languages combined (11.4kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-09-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-09-02 using wiktextract (ccec6f1 and 4deed51). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.