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can

Industrial/workplace slang: bathroom, jail, fire someone

(1)(n) Bathroom (2)(n) Jail, overnight clink or holding cell (3)(n) Buttocks (4)(vb) To stop doing something; to fire or get rid of someone

(1) Hold on a minute, I gotta visit the can (2) They threw the poor homeless guy in the can for pissing in the park. (3) Sgt: Get off your cans and start policing this area (4) They won't can me; I'm the only one who knows what's going on in this place.

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