canned

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Pronunciation

• IPA: /kænd/

Adjective

canned (not comparable)

1. Preserved in cans.

   canned tomatoes

2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass produced, or lacking originality or customization.

   The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.

   • 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer

     Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.

   • 2005, James Howard Kunstler — The Long Emergency

     The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.

3. (slang) Drunk.
4. Terminated, fired from a job.

Synonyms

• s preserved in cans tinned
• s prepared or standard boilerplate, stock
• s drunk See Thesaurus:drunk

Antonyms

• s preserved in cans dried

Translations

• French: conserve, boîte
• German: konserviert, Dose
• Italian: in scatola
• Portuguese: enlatado
• Russian: консерви́рованный

Translations

• Portuguese: bêbado
• Russian: пья́ный

Translations

• Portuguese: conservado
• Russian: загото́вленный

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of can

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