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blitz can

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jerry can

–noun
1. Also called blitz can. Military. a narrow, flat-sided, five-gallon (19-liter) container for fluids, as fuel.
2. British. a can with a capacity of 4 1/2 imperial gallons (5.4 U.S. gallons or 20.4 liters).
Also, jer⋅ry⋅can, jer⋅ri⋅can.


Origin:
1940–45; appar. Jerry “German”; the British supposedly manufactured the can after a German prototype
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