jerry can

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 41/2 imperial gallons (5.4 U.S. gallons or 20.4 liters).
Also, jer·ry·can, jer·ri·can.


Origin:
1940–45; apparently Jerry “German”; the British supposedly manufactured the can after a German prototype
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Jerry can is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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jerry can
 
n
a flat-sided can with a capacity of between 4.5 and 5 gallons used for storing or transporting liquids, esp motor fuel: originally a German design adopted by the British Army during World War II
 
[C20: from Jerry]

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