adjective
- preserved in a can or jar: canned peaches.
- Informal. recorded: canned music.
- Informal. prepared in advance: a canned speech.
- Slang. drunk.
adjective
- preserved and stored in airtight cans or tinscanned meat
- informal prepared or recorded in advance; artificial; not spontaneouscanned music
- a slang word for drunk (def. 1)
adj.1859, “put up in a can,” past participle adjective from can (v.2). Figuratively, of music, from 1904, originally a contemptuous term (associated with John Philip Sousa) for music played by automatic instruments.