canning
n.— «Marilyn Frano, Weymouth’s substance abuse prevention coordinator, said she came up with the idea after she heard that Weymouth High School athletes were asked to collect change—a practice known as “canning”—outside liquor stores on Super Bowl Sunday to take advantage the high volume of business on that day.» —“Weymouth schools looking at fundraising in front of liquor stores” by Jack Encarnacao in Weymouth Patriot Ledger (Quincy, Massachusetts) Apr. 1, 2009. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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