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coin
1[ koin ]
noun
- a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- a number of such pieces.
- Informal. money; cash:
He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
- Architecture. quoin ( defs 1, 2 ).
- Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
adjective
- operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot:
a coin laundry.
verb (used with object)
- to make (coinage) by stamping metal:
The mint is coining pennies.
- to convert (metal) into coinage:
The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
- to make; invent; fabricate:
to coin an expression.
- Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss ( def 3 ).
verb (used without object)
- British Informal. to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
COIN
2[ koin ]
noun
coin
/ kɔɪn /
noun
- a metal disc or piece used as money
- metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc nummary
- architect a variant spelling of quoin
- pay a person back in his own cointo treat a person in the way that he has treated others
- the other side of the cointhe opposite view of a matter
verb
- tr to make or stamp (coins)
- tr to make into a coin
- tr to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
- informal.tr to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in )
- to coin a phrasesaid ironically after one uses a cliché
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Derived Forms
- ˈcoiner, noun
- ˈcoinable, adjective
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Other Words From
- coin·a·ble adjective
- coin·er noun
- mis·coin verb
- re·coin verb (used with object)
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coin1
Origin of coin2
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Word History and Origins
Origin of coin1
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Idioms and Phrases
- coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly:
Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
- pay someone back in his / her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate:
If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
- the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
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In addition to the idiom beginning with coin , also see other side of the coin ; pay back (in someone's own coin) .Discover More
Example Sentences
Asteroids, at the moment I am writing, is the most popular coin-operated game—video, pinball, or other—in the United States.
Some of the things Lawrence had to alter from the book involved President Coin, played by Julianne Moore.
Americans want to do something about this coin-operated government.
“When you fired your arrow at the force field, you electrified a nation,” President Coin (Julianne Moore) tells her.
She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”
It was a mighty simple transaction, but it produced some startling results for me, that same coin-spinning.
A bezant was a gold coin, originally struck at Byzantium, whence the name.
The soldiers so frequently threw away copper coin given them in change as valueless, that many natives discontinued to offer it.
And putting his hand in his pocket, he drew out a golden coin, and slipped it into Donald's hand.
It was not practicable to deny a legal-tender value to so much Mexican, and Spanish-Philippine coin in circulation.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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