shitcan

plural shitcans

1. vulgarA receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.

   One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.

   2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19

   2 more examples

   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.

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

   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.

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

   Synonyms: shit bowl, shitbucket, shitpot, shitter, can, can, chamber, chamber pot

2. vulgarA garbage can or wastepaper basket.

   Everything down the shitcan.

   1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150

   2 more examples

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

   1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass

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

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

   Synonyms: bin, garbage can, garbage pail, trash bin, trash can, trashbin, trashcan, waste bin

3. vulgarA shoddy vehicle.

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

   2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age

   2 more examples

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

   2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133

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

   2008, Vanessa Place, La Medusa, page 380

   Synonyms: shitbox, shitbucket, piece of shit, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker

present singular third person shitcans · participle present shitcanning · participle past shitcanned · past shitcanned

1. alternativeslangtransitivevulgarAlternative form of shit-can.

   They had to shitcan him.

   1983, Thomas G. Foxworth, Michael Laurence, Passengers, page 198

   4 more examples

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

   1992, Carsten Stroud, Lizardskin, page 244

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

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

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

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

   Shitcan the rhetoric and study the action.

   2012, Gregg Shotwell, Autoworkers Under the Gun