canned

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kænd/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ænd

Adjective[edit]

canned (not comparable)

  1. Preserved in cans.
    canned tomatoes
  2. (by extension) Previously prepared; not fresh or new; standardized, mass-produced, or lacking originality or customization.
    The form letter included a canned answer stating that what I asked was against policy.
    • 1998, Dr. Dobb's Journal: Software Tools for the Professional Programmer:
      Unfortunately, some of the canned code, which Visual C++ gives to you when creating an application, is not CE aware and gives you compile errors.
    • 2005, James Howard Kunstler, chapter 7, in The Long Emergency, page 279:
      The vested owners of all those sun-drenched tract houses may stick around for a while and fight over the region, perhaps thinking that they are reenacting the great historical dramas of the nineteenth century—such is the long-term effect of canned entertainment on the collective imagi­nation.
    • 2016 February 7, Michael Barbaro, “Once Impervious, Marco Rubio Is Diminished by a Caustic Chris Christie”, in The New York Times‎[1]:
      Throughout the evening, Mr. Christie’s admonition about canned lines and rehearsed speeches hovered and seemed to recalibrate how the crowd — and television viewers — processed what Mr. Rubio said (and resaid, over and over).
  3. (slang) Drunk.
  4. Terminated, fired from a job.

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Antonyms[edit]

  • (antonym(s) of "preserved in cans"): dried

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Verb[edit]

canned

  1. simple past and past participle of can

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