| 单词 | canned heat |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanned heat canned heat n. North American a flammable jelly, composed chiefly of denatured alcohol, sold in a small can as a portable fuel, but sometimes also used as an improvised intoxicant; cf. Sterno n. ΚΠ 1915 N.Y. Times 23 Jan. 7/2 (advt.) One of the greatest modern utilities: Sterno Canned Heat. All the efficiency of gas or electricity, but infinitely more convenient. 1918 Diary 23 Feb. in Company ‘A’ 23rd Engineers (1920) 22/1 We were issued canned-heat and cooked our own suppers of red horse, tomatoes and hard tack. 1935 T. Wolfe Of Time & River ii. xiv. 158 Old blown bums who..beg, with canned heat on their breaths. 1951 J. Jones From Here to Eternity li. 776 They didnt even have whiskey; all they had had was canned heat from Woolworth's that they had to strain the alcohol out of. 2013 Toronto Star (Nexis) 27 Dec. gt2 Shelves were denuded of everything but a few containers of canned heat and some vastly overpriced kerosene. < as lemmas |
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