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Definition of cans

cans

  • headphones. 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 favourite food was cow pie, complete with horns and tail poking out of the piecrust.)

    Originally submitted by Jill G. from Westminster, London, UK on Apr 09 2005.  (Edit this definition.)

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