See firecan on Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fire",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "fire + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From fire + can.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "firecans",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "firecan (plural firecans)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Aircraft",
"orig": "en:Aircraft",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
9,
16
]
],
"ref": "1949, Popular Science, volume 155, number 6, page 120:",
"text": "When the firecan jockeys have flown their blowtorches some 100,000 miles, the doctors take over for the ground physical.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A jet fighter."
],
"id": "en-firecan-en-noun-nWevbEoX",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"jet fighter",
"jet fighter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military slang, US) A jet fighter."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blowtorch"
},
{
"word": "fast mover"
},
{
"word": "fighter jet"
}
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"word": "firecan"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fire",
"3": "can"
},
"expansion": "fire + can",
"name": "compound"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From fire + can.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "firecans",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "firecan (plural firecans)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English compound terms",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English military slang",
"English nouns",
"English terms with quotations",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Aircraft"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
9,
16
]
],
"ref": "1949, Popular Science, volume 155, number 6, page 120:",
"text": "When the firecan jockeys have flown their blowtorches some 100,000 miles, the doctors take over for the ground physical.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A jet fighter."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"slang",
"slang"
],
[
"jet fighter",
"jet fighter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military slang, US) A jet fighter."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "blowtorch"
},
{
"word": "fast mover"
},
{
"word": "fighter jet"
}
],
"tags": [
"US",
"slang"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"word": "firecan"
}
Download raw JSONL data for firecan meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-10 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (85b9f46 and 1b6da77). 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.