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  • adjective let go from a job
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of fire.

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  • adjective having lost your job

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  • Synonym (slang): Canned, as in "I got canned from my job today."

    November 30, 2011

  • Synonym (slang): Canned, as in "I got canned from my job today."

    November 30, 2011