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Definition of "billy-can" [billy-can]

  • Alternative spelling of billycan. (noun)

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Use "billy-can" in a sentence
  • "With my bundle on my shoulder and a billy-can in my hand;"
  • "I'd have laid a million to one that I'd not return to that little stand of white poplars south of the Moochee Gate where I'd sat by the fire with Gardner - yet here I was, only a few weeks later, with the flames crackling under the billy-can resting on the self-same red stone With the crack in it."
  • "Pick the remnants of your swag up, pick your billy-can and bag up"