jerrycan
/ˈdʒɛrɪkan
/(also jerrican)
noun
A large flat-sided metal container for storing or transporting liquids, typically petrol or water.Children and adults, including elderly men and women, filled jerricans and other containers with water....
- En route to a hotel, we handed out sparkling new cooking pots and jerrycans to bemused beggars.
- When he completed the program and came back here the parents gave him a jerrycan full of petrol.
Origin
Second World War: from Jerry + can2, because such containers were first used in Germany.
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- make sense
- make sense of
- make sheep's eyes at someone
- make shift
- makeshift
- make short work of
- make someone over
- make someone's blood boil
- make someone's blood curdle
- make someone's blood run cold
- make someone's day
- make someone's eyes pop (or pop out)
- make someone's flesh crawl (or creep)
- make someone's hackles rise
- make someone's hair curl
- make someone's hair stand on end
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- make someone's life a misery (or make life a misery for someone)
- make someone's skin crawl
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- make someone's toes curl
- make someone/thing out
- striking price
- strimmer