tin can
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.03 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
Example Sentences
- "‘What was it you said you did aboard that tin-can you came from?’"
- "As the tin can sailors started telling us what they thought of AKA sailors, which they said were inferior seamen habing to serve aboard an auxiliary vessel instead of a ship of the line;"
- "They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten."
- "We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around."
- "I was too late as bearing down the ribbon of no return was a huge tin can piloted by two women with hair blowing over the side windows."
- "For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do"
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
tin can telephone
aluminum can
Frequently Paired Words
tinfoil
aluminum can