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canned, ppl. a.|kænd|
[f. can v.3]
a. Put up or preserved in a can; tinned.
1859R. B. Marcy Prairie Traveler 31 Canned vegetables are very good for campaigning. 1865Morn. Star 13 Apr., Canned milk. 1879J. W. Boddam-Whetham Roraima 140 note, A small quantity of canned provisions. 1881Newspr., Canned beef and mutton. 1888E. H. D'Avigdor Antipodean Notes xxiv. 173 Diggers all use immense quantities of jam and ‘canned’ fruits. 1937Daily Express 24 Feb. 16/5 Canned beer has..flopped in Great Britain. 1954Sun (Baltimore) 11 Dec. B. 15/2 The park area{ddd}where gather ‘boys who like canned heat’.
b. fig. Mechanically or artificially reproduced, esp. of music.
1904‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings vi. 93 ‘The Latin races..are peculiarly adapted to be victims of the phonograph.’ ‘Then,’ says I, ‘we'll export canned music to the Latins.’ 1908Westm. Gaz. 5 Aug. 2/2 The latest invention is the ‘canned speech’ delivered by a gramophone. 1930Punch 2 July 21/1 ‘Canned music’, by which is meant music transmitted by mechanism along with the film instead of being played by the theatre band. 1934B.B.C. Year-Book 117 Broadcasting has been derided as ‘canned’ entertainment. 1959Camb. Rev. 7 Feb. 321/1 The film as pictures (not merely as canned drama).
c. Intoxicated, ‘tight’. slang.
1914C. Mackenzie Sinister Street II. iv. ii. 882 She was a bit canned that night, and I suppose I'd had one or two myself. 1926‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court iv. 70 Being rather canned, he sticks the candle on the table, and forgets all about it. |