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Noun: cant  kant
  1. Stock phrases that have become nonsense through endless repetition
    - buzzword
     
  2. A slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force
    - bank, camber
     
  3. A characteristic language of a particular group
    "they don't speak our cant";
    - slang, jargon, lingo, argot, patois, vernacular
     
  4. Insincere talk about religion or morals
    - pious platitude
     
  5. Two surfaces meeting at an angle different from 90 degrees
    - bevel, chamfer
Verb: cant  kant
  1. Heel over
    "The tower is canting";
    - cant over, tilt, slant, pitch
Contraction: can't  kant or kaant [N. Amer], kaant [Brit]
  1. Can not

Sounds like: Kant

Derived forms: canting, cants, canted

Type of: bunk [informal], edge, hokum [informal], incline, meaninglessness, move, nonsense, nonsensicality, non-standard speech, side, slope, talk, talking

Encyclopedia: Cant, Richard

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