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shitcan (複数形 shitcans)

1. (vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
   • 2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19:

     One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.

   • 2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152:

     One had done time at Mount Penang and the other had been at Yasma Boys' Shelter, so our backgrounds bound us together, which was just as well: the cell was very small, with three beds, a three-gallon shitcan and no plumbing in a space about the size of the bathroom in an average Sydney terrace.

   • 2009, Jaroslav Hašek, The Fateful Adventures of the Good Soldier Švejk During the World War:

     I answered that the rotation of the Earth couldn't be interrupted by the appearance of such a one-year volunteer like me on it, that the laws of nature were stronger than the stripes of one-year volunteers and that I would wish to know who could make me spitshine some shitcan that I didn't crap up, although I'd even have a right to do that after dealing with the swine kitchen at the regiment, after that rotten cabbage and soaked mutton meat.

2. (vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
   • 1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150:

     Everything down the shitcan.

   • 1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass:

     Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."

   • 2002, Steven Pressfield, Shawn Coyne, The War of Art:

     For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan.

3. (vulgar) A shoddy vehicle.
   • 2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133:

     Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.

   • 2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age:

     It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.

   • 2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380:

     Yonda goes my lawyer, now I gots nothin for my own cognizance scept sweet baby Jesus an a shitcan Toy-ta.

同意語

• (receptacle for excrement): shit bowl, shitpot, shitter, can; see also Thesaurus:chamber pot
• (waste container): See Thesaurus:waste bin
• (shoddy vehicle): shitbox, piece of shit, lemon

動詞

shitcan (三人称単数 現在形 shitcans, 現在分詞 shitcanning, 過去形および過去分詞形 shitcanned)

1. (vulgar slang, transitive) Alternative form of shit-can
   • 1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198:

     They had to shitcan him.

   • 1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244:

     But I guess we can shitcan the robbery angle, right?

   • 2007, Duff Brenna, The Law of Falling Bodies, page 225:

     Shitcan that shit. I don't want it in the house.

   • 2008, Baka Imre, The Sound of Guns, page 50:

     I will have to come up with a foolproof scheme to shitcan the violin.

   • 2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun:

     Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.

参照

• Oxford English Dictionary. "shitcan, n."

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語源

Derived from shitcan, meaning trash can.

動詞

shit-can (三人称単数 現在形 shit-cans, 現在分詞 shit-canning, 過去形および過去分詞形 shit-canned)

1. (slang, vulgar) To dispose of in a shitcan (trash can); to throw out.
   • 2003, Joel Turnipseed, Baghdad Express: A Gulf War Memoir, page 176:

     I figured that was your communiss trash. I shit-canned it.

   • 2005, Shit:

     Exhibitors and promotion companies endlessly give out free shit, which often just gets shit-canned when the attendees get to the airport because TSA won't let you take that shit onto a plane.

   • 2011, Christopher Brookmyre, A Snowball In Hell:

     He figures the popcorn boxes and candy wrappers aren't the only things getting shit-canned right now.

2. (slang, vulgar) To dismiss or expel from work or elsewhere.
   • 1979, Evelyn Shapiro, Barry Shapiro, The Women Say, the Men Say:

     And I am me and you're not going to shit-can me without me fighting back.

   • 2005, Jeff Scheidel, Wake Me When I'm Over, page 78:

     She didn't get shit-canned, she split.

   • 2012, Richard Marcinko, John Weisman, Detachment Bravo:

     Ambassador had him shit-canned. Sent him home early.

3. (slang, vulgar) To get rid of or cancel.
   • 1994, Tom Clancy, Three Complete Novels, page 681:

     I'm probably going to shit-can the program, 'cause I don't think it's worth the money.

   • 2009, Davinia Bostick, The Match, page 108:

     Looks like it's time to shit-can your poisoning the fountain idea.

   • 2011, Nancy Bush, Hush, page 135:

     He supposed now that would all come out, which made him want to shit-can his relationship with Juliet altogether, not that it was much more than sex anyway.

4. (slang, vulgar) To severely injure or destroy; to trash.
   • 2001, Martin Harry Greenberg, First to Fight II, page 8:

     Spencer, if you're going to shit-can your career in special ops, that's fine with me. But you'd damned well better be honest about the reasons you're doing it.

   • 2008, Sean O. Richardson, Mark B. Andersen, Tony Morris, Overtraining Athletes: Personal Journeys in Sport, page 112:

     You know, the press, like it or not, you read the press, and, if you're getting shit-canned in the press, and you know you're injured, you think, "Oh, shit. The press are giving me a hard time. I've got to train harder to get back in to play, so then they can stop getting on my back."

   • 2011, Jim Harrison, The Great Leader:

     Your Blazer is shit-canned, buddy.

   • 2012, Jobie Hughes, At Dawn, page 171:

     I was absolutely shit-canned. My arm was draped over Carolyn's shoulders and she was supporting most of my weight.

同意語

• (dismiss from continuing work): can, fire, terminate; see also Thesaurus:lay off

名詞

shit-can (複数形 shit-cans)

1. Alternative form of shitcan
   • 1995, San Francisco Review of Books - Volumes 20-21, page 38:

     Says Ellroy, "Noir is a shit-can I'm getting off of.

   • 1999, Indian Review of Books - Volume 9, page 39:

     His eyes were turning toward the shit-cans below each latrine.

   • 2019, Jack Walker, In a Mirror Dimly: Stumbling Into Manhood:

     I was put in charge of a detail to go to the beach on the base and fill five large “shit-cans” with sand for the deck.

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