To be forbidden to; to be not permitted to.
Shut up, can’t you?
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(negative auxiliary); be unable to; not have the ability to (whether due to lacking relevant strength or skill or knowledge or supplies, or due to logical impossibility, etc).
I can’t quite get it to work.
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(slang, euphemistic) To be unwilling to; to not have the desire of; to don’t want to.
The butler can’t be the murderer — he '''can't''' have killed her — because he was in London that evening.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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