toonie
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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A slew of loonie placements and derivative concepts since 2002 have failed to deliver any Canadian sports magic — including when Masai Ujiri, Toronto’s president of basketball operations, placed a two-dollar Canadian toonie coin under the team’s practice court in Tampa, Fla., in December.
From New York Times
Money: The currency is the Canadian dollar, and $1 and $2 coins are charmingly called loonie and toonie.
From Washington Post
The specially designed two-dollar coin, or toonie, as it’s known in Canada, features two people paddling in a canoe as the northern lights – vivid in green and blue – dance high above them.
From The Guardian
By extension, the $2 coin is called a toonie.
From Washington Post
The switch went over so well that the country also went to a $2 coin called the “Toonie.”
From Time
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