Wiktionary
alt. A lightweight metallic can containing beer. n. A lightweight metallic can containing beer.
WordNet
n. a can that holds beer
Usage examples of "beer can".
He was sitting on Mr Terry's porch, leaning back against the side of the house in a folding chair and lazily listening to the other men talking, and the beer can was making a cold wet ring on his knee.
As a science fiction writer, your abnormal interest--as verified by library records--in Satanism, ESP and home-brewed beer can be considered morally questionable to the point of possibly being criminal in intent.
Jerry said like hell they were and told Ricker about the time he'd gone fishing at Rincon and walked through a thicket of it, not seeing the leaves because it was winter, but how even that much exposure had been enough to make his dick swell up like a beer can.
I laughed and ripped open a beer can that foamed all over the back seat while I kept talking.
Arnold puts his beer can on the floor and rests the telephone awkwardly on the door handle, not wanting to block his retreat by moving any nearer the table.
He looked around, picked up a beer can from a nearby table, and hurled it at Flint's head.
They sat in silence for a minute, Nancy smiling at Joe, Joe staring at his beer can and drawing pictures with his finger in the puddles on the table.