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cans

/ kænz /

plural noun

  1. an informal name for headphones

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Tariffs have increased packaging costs for steel cans, so a lot of canned goods have been hit.

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Argentina has a history of debasing its currency, which is why its people keep billions of dollars in coffee cans, home safes and mattresses.

What happens when the middle class isn’t so middle anymore, and the people who make those postcard-perfect towns run are left counting the dollars in their wallets — or the cans in their cupboards?

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He downed a Diet Mountain Dew, then revealed his secret weapon—three cans of Red Bull in his backpack.

The bicycle remained an essential part of Rwandan life, from competitive city teams to weekday commuters to deliverymen pedaling tall cans of milk over cratered dirt roads.

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