shitcan

Noun

shitcan (plural shitcans)

1. (vulgar) A receptacle for holding excrement, especially the removable can on a latrine.
   • One shitcan won't flush, Coyt-san.2004, Richard Vaughn, Soldier Boys, page 19
   • One had done time at Mount Penang and the other had been at Yasma Boys' Shelter, so our backgrounds bound us together, which was just as well: the cell was very small, with three beds, a three-gallon shitcan and no plumbing in a space about the size of the bathroom in an average Sydney terrace.2004, Robert Adamson, Inside Out: An Autobiography, page 152

   Synonyms:

   shit bowl, shitbucket, shitpot, shitter, can, chamber, chamber pot, chemical toilet, commode, Cousin John

2. (vulgar) A garbage can or wastepaper basket.
   • Everything down the shitcan.1986, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction - Volume 70, page 150
   • Five points if you put the shoe in the shitcan; two if you hit it and dent it."1989, C. T. Westcott, Broadsides and brass

   Synonyms:

   bin, garbage can, garbage pail, trash bin, trash can, trashbin, trashcan, waste bin, wastebin

3. (vulgar) A shoddy vehicle.
   • Very good young man. Look for my car. The shitcan.2006, Mark Falkin, Days of Grace, page 133
   • It's a Lynx-class frigate. A real shitcan.2008, Tony Gonzales, Eve: The Empyrean Age

   Synonyms:

   shitbox, shitbucket, piece of shit, banger, beater, bucket of bolts, bucket of rust, clunker, crate, crock