"jerrycan" meaning in English

See jerrycan in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌkæn/, /ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-jerrycan.wav Forms: jerrycans [plural]
Etymology: From Jerry (“a German”) + can, from its use by German troops in World War II. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|Jerry|can|id1=German|t1=a German}} Jerry (“a German”) + can Head templates: {{en-noun}} jerrycan (plural jerrycans)
  1. A robust fuel container often made from pressed steel. Categories (topical): Containers Synonyms: jerican, jerrican, jerry can, jerry-can Translations (pressed-steel fuel container): կանիստր (kanistr) (Armenian), кані́стра (kanístra) (Belarusian), туба (tuba) [feminine] (Bulgarian), 汽油罐 (qìyóu guàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 油罐 (yóuguàn) (Chinese Mandarin), kanystr [masculine] (Czech), jerrycan [common-gender] (Danish), benzindunk [common-gender] (Danish), jerrycan [common-gender] (Dutch), jerrykannu (Finnish), kanisteri (Finnish), jerricane [masculine] (French), jerrican [masculine] (French), bidon [masculine] (French), კანისტრა (ḳanisṭra) (Georgian), Benzinkanister [masculine] (German), Kanister [masculine] (German), κάνιστρο (kánistro) [neuter] (Greek), גֶ'רִיקָן [masculine] (Hebrew), jeriken (Indonesian), tanica [feminine] (Italian), ジェリカン (jerikan) (Japanese), 제리캔 (jerikaen) (Korean), jerrykanne [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), jerrykanne [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), kanister [masculine] (Polish), galão [masculine] (Portuguese), кани́стра (kanístra) [feminine] (Russian), bidón [masculine] (Spanish), jerikeni (Swahili), jeepdunk [common-gender] (Swedish), jerrykanna [Finland, common-gender] (Swedish), bidon (Turkish), кані́стра (kanístra) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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          "ref": "1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 46:",
          "text": "The police fell back, swatting and cursing. At the gateway, somebody grabbed a jerrycan of water from Jonamon's hut and flung its contents at the swarm.",
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          "text": "Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.",
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          "code": "cmn",
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          "word": "汽油罐"
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          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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          "word": "benzindunk"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "word": "kanisteri"
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          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "jerricane"
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          "code": "fr",
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          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "bidon"
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          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ḳanisṭra",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "word": "კანისტრა"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Benzinkanister"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "Kanister"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "kánistro",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
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          "code": "he",
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          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "גֶ'רִיקָן"
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          "code": "id",
          "lang": "Indonesian",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "word": "jeriken"
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
          "word": "ジェリカン"
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            "feminine",
            "masculine"
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            "feminine"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "kanister"
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          "code": "pt",
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          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "galão"
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          "code": "ru",
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          "roman": "kanístra",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "кани́стра"
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        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Hebrew: ג'ריקן (jerikan)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "Jerry",
        "3": "can",
        "id1": "German",
        "t1": "a German"
      },
      "expansion": "Jerry (“a German”) + can",
      "name": "compound"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Jerry (“a German”) + can, from its use by German troops in World War II.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "jerrycans",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "jerrycan (plural jerrycans)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English compound terms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Japanese terms with redundant script codes",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 2 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Terms with Armenian translations",
        "Terms with Belarusian translations",
        "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Danish translations",
        "Terms with Dutch translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with Georgian translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Greek translations",
        "Terms with Hebrew translations",
        "Terms with Indonesian translations",
        "Terms with Italian translations",
        "Terms with Japanese translations",
        "Terms with Korean translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations",
        "Terms with Norwegian Nynorsk translations",
        "Terms with Polish translations",
        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
        "Terms with Russian translations",
        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swahili translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Turkish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
        "en:Containers"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, Michael Swanwick, Vacuum Flowers, New York: Arbor House, →ISBN, page 46:",
          "text": "The police fell back, swatting and cursing. At the gateway, somebody grabbed a jerrycan of water from Jonamon's hut and flung its contents at the swarm.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 259:",
          "text": "Anyone with half a brain and a jerrycan of fertilizer's got an army.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A robust fuel container often made from pressed steel."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "robust",
          "robust"
        ],
        [
          "fuel",
          "fuel"
        ],
        [
          "container",
          "container"
        ],
        [
          "press",
          "press"
        ],
        [
          "steel",
          "steel"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛɹiˌkæn/"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈd͡ʒɛɹɪˌkæn/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-jerrycan.wav",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/b4/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-jerrycan.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-jerrycan.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "jerican"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerrican"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerry can"
    },
    {
      "word": "jerry-can"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "kanistr",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "կանիստր"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "kanístra",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "кані́стра"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "tuba",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "туба"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qìyóu guàn",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "汽油罐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yóuguàn",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "油罐"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanystr"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jerrycan"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "benzindunk"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jerrycan"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "jerrykannu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "kanisteri"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jerricane"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jerrican"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bidon"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ḳanisṭra",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "კანისტრა"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Benzinkanister"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Kanister"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "kánistro",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "κάνιστρο"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "גֶ'רִיקָן"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "jeriken"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "tanica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "jerikan",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "ジェリカン"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "jerikaen",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "제리캔"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "jerrykanne"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "jerrykanne"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "kanister"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "galão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "kanístra",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кани́стра"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bidón"
    },
    {
      "code": "sw",
      "lang": "Swahili",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "jerikeni"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jeepdunk"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "Finland",
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "jerrykanna"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "word": "bidon"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "kanístra",
      "sense": "pressed-steel fuel container",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "кані́стра"
    }
  ],
  "word": "jerrycan"
}

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