coed
Americannoun
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coeds
plural
adjective
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Older Use. of, relating to, or being a coed or coeds.
coed fads.
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for or serving both men and women alike.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coed
1885–90, short for coeducational student
Example Sentences
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He even met his wife while playing a coed kickabout in Washington, D.C.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026
I said we’re going to have men and women here, and they said, “No, no, there’s never any coed bathing here.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2025
The conditions they face are often punishing: In Mexico, platforms are isolated with limited communication, living situations are dorm-style and sometimes coed, and many workers have short-term contracts with little protection.
From Slate ● Dec. 16, 2023
Under pressure from Congress, the Marines over the past four years gradually made the 4th Battalion coed, then disbanded it in June.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2023
He would come to visit a bunch of times, which made him the only ten-year-old who showered and brushed his teeth in our dorm's coed bathrooms.
From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi
A collection of female coeds go out on Halloween night, pick up a couple of dudes and end up at an extreme horror-themed, haunted-house maze featuring typical scares.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 15, 2021
From the 1920s to the ’70s, coeds looking for the architecture school often were given directions to the interior design department.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 13, 2020
The two coeds talked of their ambitions, how they would change the world.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
John put it this way: “College towns were once rife with cinderblock bunkers where coeds ate wings and burgers. Today, Athens is a mature restaurant town.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 22, 2016
Sleek, mahogany motorboats roared by, on their way from Lake Washington into the Cut, coeds in bathing suits perched on the rear decks waving at them as they passed.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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