cans
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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I carefully loaded bags of chips, soda cans, candy and whatever weird items showed up.
They can be as large as buildings or as small as garbage cans.
Raccoons are known for breaking into peoples garbage cans, leading to the nickname "trash panda".
From BBC
The plow is “a child of the north / like Romanticism,” its blade pushing “at its superb angle . . . everything before it, / old snow with the new, garbage and beer cans.”
Perhaps more surprisingly, bags of gravel and even cans of soft drinks are also targets - and "they will be out the door before we're even aware that they're in the shop".
From BBC
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