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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.
Common Names:
| Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
| Zoja | | ZOI-ah (Polish) | Polish, Macedonian |
| Ruchel | | - | Yiddish |
| Molly | | MAHL-ee | English |
| Casper | | KAHS-pər (Dutch) | Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish |
| Geertruida | | - | Dutch |
| ĐUraĐA | | - | Serbian, Croatian (Archaic) |