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Browsing page 1 of words meaning to fire, dismiss (11 words total)
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- asscan – can – dumbsize – firement – get the ax – get the pink slip – give the axe – give the boot – sack – shitcan – whack
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asscan
noun
- a despicable person.
Shove off you asscan.
- See more words with the same meaning: uncool person, jerk, asshole (general insults - list of).
Last edited on Feb 16 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Feb 06 2014.
verb - transitive
- to terminate a person's employment; "fire".
He finally got asscanned for all the times he came in to work hungover.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Feb 06 2014. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 06 2014.
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can
adjective
- garbage (shortened of garbage can).
Last edited on Jan 30 2016. Submitted by Chuck S. on Jan 30 2016.
noun
- bathroom.
Citation from "H.O.U.S.E. Rules", Eureka (TV), Season 1 Episode 11 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: bathroom, restroom.
Last edited on Dec 13 2010. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 01 2001.
- buttocks.
Check out the can on her!
- See more words with the same meaning: buttocks, butt, ass.
Last edited on Jul 22 2002. Submitted by T. S. from St Louis, MO, USA on Jul 22 2002.
- a breast. Usually used in the plural.
Nice cans, hon.
Did you see the size of the cans on that waitress?!
Check out those cans!
His sister has nice cans.
- See more words with the same meaning: breast, breasts.
Last edited on Feb 15 2019. Submitted by John O. from Algonquin, IL, USA on Oct 07 2004.
- a headphone. Used in the plural, to refer to headphones.
Hypothesis for etymology: From "Desperates", Cockney rhyming slang from the cartoon character Desperate Dan. He was a huge, amiable but very stupid man with a large chin whose favorite food was cow pie, complete with horns and tail poking out of the piecrust.Last edited on Feb 15 2019. Submitted by Jill G. from Westminster, London, UK on Apr 09 2005.
- toilet.
He's on the can.
- See more words with the same meaning: toilets (related to).
Last edited on Aug 26 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
- a jail; prison; confined room; jail cell.
Last edited on Jan 30 2016. Submitted by Chuck S. on Jan 30 2016.
- a spray paint.
Last edited on Jan 30 2016. Submitted by Chuck S. on Jan 30 2016.
- a silencer.
Last edited on Jan 30 2016. Submitted by Chuck S. on Jan 30 2016.
verb - transitive
- to dismiss ("fire") from a job.
Your boss is gonna can you if you don't show up tomorrow.
Citation from "Death Has a Shadow", Family Guy (TV), Season 1 Episode 1 (1999) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Oct 28 2011. Submitted by Nina R. from Shorewood, WI, USA on May 15 2004.
- to stop speech, visible emotion, etc.
Citation from "The Unusual Suspects", Alphas (TV), Season 1 Episode 10 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.
Citation from "Iced, Iced Babies", American Dad! (TV), Season 2 Episode 6 (2006) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to stop talking.
Last edited on Apr 16 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 22 2013.
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dumbsize
verb - ambitransitive
- to reduce the number of people employed in an organization or company to the point that there are no longer enough to carry out the work effectively. From "dumb" + "downsize".
- See more words with the same meaning: corporate-speak (list of).
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Mar 21 2011. Submitted by Dick Wright-Upham from Wellington, New Zealand on Jan 03 2011.
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firement
noun
- dismissal from a job; "firing".
Susan, you have been late to work so many times. That is grounds for firement.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Oct 11 2016. Submitted by Anonymous on Oct 08 2016.
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get the ax
verb
- to be fired.
The whole division got the ax.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Apr 08 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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get the pink slip
verb
- to be fired from a job.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Oct 08 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 11 2009.
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give the axe
verb - transitive
- to terminate from employment.
When management found out he was boinking his secretary, they gave him the axe.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Sep 10 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Sep 02 2009.
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give the boot
verb - transitive
- to dismiss or generally get rid of someone.
If you don't get the project done on time, they're going to give you the boot.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Oct 23 2012. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
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sack
noun
- testicles. Sentence implies to be masculine and not feminine.
Get a sack and go ask her out.
- See more words with the same meaning: testicles.
Last edited on Nov 12 2001. Submitted by Hoss C. from Montrose, CO, USA on Nov 12 2001.
- a bag containing illegal drugs.
I'll buy a sack.
Can I get a $20 sack?
- See more words with the same meaning: drug container.
Last edited on Jun 19 2010. Submitted by Theodor C. on Jan 22 2002.
- bed, in the phrase "hit the sack."
Last edited on Apr 11 2019. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.
verb - transitive
- to dismiss from a job; "fire".
Citation from Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975 film) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Dec 30 2010. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 31 2009.
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shitcan
noun
- a can that holds shit.
Be careful when you walk over there, I wouldn't want you to dump the shitcan.
Last edited on Oct 27 2011. Submitted by Pazuzu from Minneapolis, MN, USA on Nov 11 2009.
verb - transitive
- to throw away; discard; dispose of.
We need to shitcan this design and start over.
His ideas were shit-canned in favor of someone else's.
Last edited on Oct 27 2011. Submitted by Patrick from Austin, TX, USA on Jun 18 1998.
- to fire from a job.
I got shitcanned last week.
- See more words with the same meaning: to fire, dismiss.
Last edited on Aug 26 2009. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Aug 26 2009.
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