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
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
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
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 -
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.
Source: Anti Villain / Film
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