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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 |
| TaÍS | | - | Portuguese (Brazilian) |
| Saveriu | | - | Corsican |
| Kristoffer | | KREES-tof-fer (Finnish) | Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish |
| Aleksy | | ahl-EK-si | Polish |
| Farrukh | | - | Urdu, Uzbek, Tajik |
| ŘEhoŘ | | - | Czech |