canned heat
noun
variants: 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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