can (someone)



can (someone)

To summarily dismiss or oust someone from employment; to fire someone. Management promptly canned the new accountant after his miscalculation cost the company hundreds of thousands of dollars. They'll can me if they ever find out I came into work drunk yesterday.
See also: can

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ZojaZOI-ah (Polish)Polish, Macedonian
Ruchel-Yiddish
MollyMAHL-eeEnglish
CasperKAHS-pər (Dutch)Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Geertruida-Dutch
ĐUraĐA-Serbian, Croatian (Archaic)