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Jack I see rotating tin cans (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

johns

'cans' is the definition.
('john' can be a synonym of 'can')

'jack i see rotating tin' is the wordplay.
'jack' becomes 'j' (playing card abbreviation).
'i see' becomes 'oh' (both can mean 'I understand').
'rotating' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'tin' becomes 'sn' ('Sn' can be a synonym of 'tin').
'sn' backwards is 'ns'.
'j'+'oh'+'ns'='JOHNS'

(Another definition for johns that I've seen is " man behind Biggles".)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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