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Can may refer to many things:

Acronyms

• Cult Awareness Network (CAN), Cult Awareness Network
• Content addressable network (CAN), in computer technology, a distributed hash table protocol
• Controller area network, in electronics, a serial communication interface

For additional acronyms, refer to CAN.

Linguistics

• A common Turkish name or surname, meaning "life". Correct pronunciation in Turkish is the same as the English name John (j-n).
• Slang for buttocks, breasts, headphones, toilet, prison, serpent
• "Can it", Slang for "Shut up!"

Music

• Can (band), an experimental music group from the 1970s
  • Can (album), by Can
• Can-can, a dance
• Cans, the side project of HammerFall vocalist Joacim Cans
• Cans (rapper), an underground rapper from Poughkeepsie, New York.

Nations

• Canada

Objects

• Containers, short for 'canisters'
  • Beverage can, for drinks
  • Bucket/pail
  • Milk can, a galvanized container for holding fresh milk
  • Tin can, a sealed metal (not necessarily tin) container for food
  • Canning, a process of preserving food in glass jars
• sea mark

Theatre

• Cans (theatre), colloquial term referring to the intercom system used by the crew of a theatre production.
• Cans (theatre), the metal canisters for spotlights

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