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
TaÍS-Portuguese (Brazilian)
Saveriu-Corsican
KristofferKREES-tof-fer (Finnish)Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish
Aleksyahl-EK-siPolish
Farrukh-Urdu, Uzbek, Tajik
ŘEhoŘ-Czech