Alternative spelling of Can.

A more or less cylindrical vessel for liquids, usually of steel or aluminium, but sometimes of plastic, and with a carrying handle over the top.

A container used to carry and dispense water for plants (a watering can).

A tin-plate canister, often cylindrical, for preserved foods such as fruit, meat, or fish.

(US, slang) Buttocks.

(slang) Jail or prison.

(slang, in the plural) Headphones.

(nautical) A cube-shaped buoy or marker used to denote a port-side lateral mark

A chimney pot.

(slang, in the plural) An E-meter used in Scientology auditing.

(US, slang) An ounce (or sometimes, two ounces) of marijuana.

A protective cover for the fuel element in a nuclear reactor.

(auxiliary verb, defective) To know how to; to be able to.

(modal auxiliary verb, defective, informal) May; to be permitted or enabled to.

(modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have the potential to; be possible.

(auxiliary verb, defective) Used with verbs of perception.

(India, nonstandard, proscribed) To be .

To seal in a can.

To preserve by heating and sealing in a jar or can.

To discard, scrap or terminate (an idea, project, etc.).

(transitive, slang) To shut up.

(US, euphemistic) To fire or dismiss an employee.

(golf, slang, transitive) To hole the ball.

(transitive) To cover (the fuel element in a nuclear reactor) with a protective cover.