operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.
–verb (used with object)
7.
to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies.
8.
to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
9.
to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.
10.
Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss(def. 3).
–verb (used without object)
11.
BritishInformal. to counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money.
—Idioms
12.
coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
13.
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.
14.
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
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