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- can the chatter, or I'm kicking you out of this library
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- the cashier was summarily canned for stealing from the registers
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nounSynonyms & Antonyms of can (Entry 2 of 2)
- the racketeers were rounded up and thrown in the can
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- bastille,
- big house
- [slang],
- bridewell,
- brig,
- calaboose,
- clink
- [slang],
- cooler,
- coop,
- guardroom,
- hock,
- hold,
- hoosegow,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- joint
- [slang],
- jug,
- lockup,
- nick
- [British slang],
- pen,
- penitentiary,
- pokey
- [slang],
- prison,
- quod
- [British slang],
- slam,
- slammer,
- stir
- [slang],
- stockade,
- tolbooth
- [Scottish]
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- glasshouse
- [British],
- guardhouse,
- hulk(s)
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- I excused myself and asked if I could use the can
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- ladies
- [chiefly British],
- ladies' room,
- men's room
- he fell on the ice and landed on his can
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- backside,
- behind,
- booty
- (also bootie)
- [slang],
- bottom,
- breech,
- bum,
- buns,
- butt,
- buttocks,
- caboose,
- cheeks,
- derriere
- (or derrière),
- duff,
- fanny,
- fundament,
- hams,
- haunches,
- heinie
- [slang],
- hunkers,
- keister
- (also keester)
- [slang],
- nates,
- posterior,
- rear,
- rear end,
- rump,
- seat,
- tail,
- tail end,
- tush
- [slang]
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“Can.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/can. Accessed 5 Dec. 2021.
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