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noun
1.
a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
2.
a number of such pieces.
3.
Informal. money; cash: He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
4.
Architecture. quoin (defs. 1, 2).
5.
Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
adjective
6.
operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.
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Coining
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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)
Idioms11.
British Informal. to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
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/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.
14.
the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
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Word Origin & History
coin
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 late 14c. To coin a phrase is c.1590. The "cornerstone" sense is now usually quoin.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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