Usually means: Hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, jargon.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word can't:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cant, can't, cant: Merriam-Webster
  2. Cant, can't, cant, cant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Cant, can't, cant, cant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Cant, can't, cant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Can�t, Can't, Cant, Cant, Cant, Cant, Cant, ca'n't, can�t, can''t, can't, cant, cant, cant, cant, cant: Wordnik
  7. can't, cant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cant, ca'n't, can't, cant: Wiktionary
  9. can't, cant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cant: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Can't, Cant, can't, cant: Dictionary.com
  12. cant (1), cant (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. cant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. CANT (aviation), CANT (disambiguation), Can't, Cant (architecture), Cant (language), Cant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Can't, Cant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. can't, cant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. cant: Rhymezone
  18. Can't, Cant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. cant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Cant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. cant: FreeDictionary.org
  22. cant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cant, can't, cant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. can't, cant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  25. Cant, cant: Wordnik
  26. cant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cant-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cant: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cant (road/rail), Cant, cant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cant: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. CANT: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cant, cant, cant, cant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cant: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. can't, cant: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Snowboarding Glossary (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Explosives (No longer online)
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. Cant: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See canted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (can't)

verb:  Cannot (negative auxiliary); is unable to; does not have the ability to.
verb:  Is forbidden to; is not permitted to.
verb:  Often followed by be: is logically impossible.

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