shitcan
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.30 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
noun
A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
Example Sentences
- "One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san."
- "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."
- "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."
- "Everything down the shitcan."
- "Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it.""
- "For two hours I made myself sit there, torturing out some trash that I chucked immediately into the shitcan."
Etymology
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Military.