variants:
or less commonly Canned Heat
Definition of canned heat
: a solid fuel furnished in small containers
… houses of boxes and corrugated iron where old men sit in rotten rags cooking down canned heat …— William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, 1959 —formerly a U.S. registered trademark
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