tin can

noun

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

   “As the tin can sailors started telling us what they thought of AKA sailors, which they said were inferior seamen habing to serve aboard an auxiliary vessel instead of a ship of the line;”

3. An inexpensive car.

   “They're driving the same tin can they've had since Emma and I were in kindergarten.”

   “We got a shockingly low price for it and bought a small tin-can run-around.”

4. 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.”

5. 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”

6. A nickname for a robot or artificial intelligence.

   “Do as you’re told, tin can!”