tin can

noun6

1. •
   A container, usually cylindrical, made out of sheet metal coated with tin, or (by extension) aluminum.
2. •
   (slang) A destroyer.

   • ‘What was it you said you did aboard that tin-can you came from?’ — 1960
3. •
   (slang) An inexpensive car.

   • They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten. — 2010
4. •
   (slang) A motor home or trailer.

   • I was too late as bearing down the ribbon of no return was a huge tin can piloted by two women with hair blowing over the side windows. — 2007
5. •
   (slang) A metal spaceship or space station.

   • For here am I sitting in a tin can / Far above the world / Planet Earth is blue / And there's nothing I can do — 1969
6. •
   (informal, disapproving) A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.

   • Do as you’re told, tin can!