Can and Jug

Can

Can noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: the protesters were rounded up and thrown in the can

Jug is a synonym for can in free topic. In some cases you can use "Jug" instead a noun "Can".

Jug

Jug noun - A place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody.
Usage example: some no-good fellow who had spent most of his life in and out of the county jug

Can is a synonym for jug in free topic. You can use "Can" instead a noun "Jug".

How words are described

similar similar can similar jug
open open can open jug
empty empty can empty jug
small small can small jug
Other adjectives: entire, large, big, bottomless, huge, infamous, giant, lighter, oversized.

Both words in one sentence

  • And just because he can't say the words doesn't mean he can't understand them—his guck might mean duck or truck or jug, but if you use the wrong one, he'll certainly let you know.
    Source: Baby Talk
  • Snipe Hunt He gives the students an impossible essay, or they can go to the auto parts store and get a jug of blinker fluid.
    Source: Snipe Hunt
  • Jug Face: Sustin leads the town in worshipping an Eldritch Abomination and making sacrifices to it, but he only does it so his town can use the aforementioned Abomination's healing properties.
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