operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.
–verb (used with object)
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to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies.
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to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
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to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.
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Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss(def. 3).
–verb (used without object)
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BritishInformal. to counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money.
—Idioms
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coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
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pay someone back in his or her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, esp. inamicably; retaliate: If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin.
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the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
[Origin: 1300–50; ME coyn(e), coygne < AF; MF coin, cuigne wedge, corner, die < L cuneus wedge]
1304, from O.Fr. coigne "a wedge, cornerstone," from L. cuneus "a wedge." Die for stamping metal was wedge-shaped, and the word came to mean "thing stamped, a piece of money" by c.1386. To coin a phrase is c.1590. The "cornerstone" sense is now usually quoin.
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Coin\ (koin), n. [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin. 2. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. --Hallam. 3. That which serves for payment or recompense. The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond. Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance. To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [Colloq.]
Coin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coined (koind); p. pr. & vb. n. Coining.]1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal. 2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden. 3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. --Locke.
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