booze can
- noun
- /buz kæn/
- Informal
:
lata de cerveza
- The party guests enjoyed their drinks while passing around a booze can filled with cold beer.
Examples
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After a long week, she relaxed by cracking open a booze can while watching her favorite movie.
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Too much booze can be very dangerous... memory blackouts... stuff like that...
Fiction book (1992) -
He opened a booze can and shared it with his friends at the picnic.
Synonyms
23
1.0
A small metal container you open to drink beer
16
3.0
A drink that contains alcohol, like beer or wine
7
9.9
An informal word for a bottle or can of beer
2
9.8
A small amount of alcohol that someone drinks
1
5.1
A tall can of beer larger than a regular can
1
9.9
An alcoholic drink, usually a beer
A time when people drink alcohol together
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'booze can' is compositionally built: 'booze' (alcohol) + 'can' (metal container) yields 'a can containing alcohol', so the meaning is directly derivable from its parts. The noun‑noun compounding pattern (X can = a can of X) is common and cross‑linguistically transparent; although informal register is signalled, that does not prevent comprehension at B1 if the constituents are known.
Etymology
Booze can joins the slang word booze, meaning 'alcoholic drink', with can, a metal drink container. Picture someone holding a cold metal can of beer at a picnic, and you see why it means 'a can with an alcoholic drink'.