Definition of "jerrican" []

• Variant of jerry can. (noun)

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• "A driver parks in front, a woman comes out with the jerrican and a large plastic Coke bottle that has been cut in half to a cone shape and pours the gas."
• "Kurtz had been keeping a five-gallon jerrican of gasoline in a closet."
• "He pulled out a jerrican of water and helped everybody fill their bottles."