shitcan

See also: shit-can and shit can

English

Etymology

From shit +‎ can, originally military slang.

Pronunciation

Audio (General Australian): (file)

Noun

shitcan (plural shitcans)

(vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
Synonyms: shit bowl, shitbucket, shitpot, shitter, can; see also Thesaurus:chamber pot
- 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.
(vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
Synonyms: see Thesaurus:waste bin
- 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.
(vulgar) A shoddy vehicle.
Synonyms: shitbox, shitbucket, piece of shit; see also Thesaurus:old car
- 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.

Verb

shitcan (third-person singular simple present shitcans, present participle shitcanning, simple past and past participle shitcanned)

(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.

References

Oxford English Dictionary. "shitcan, n."

Anagrams

cantish, hitscan