1 [C] a small flat piece of metal used as money:
a pound coin
2 [U] money made of metal:
notes and coin
IDIOMS see SIDEn., TWO
verb [VN]
1 to invent a new word or phrase that other people then begin to use:
The term 'cardboard city' was coined to describe communities of homeless people living in cardboard boxes.
2 to make coins out of metal
IDIOMS
be coining it (in)
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for coin is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is coin a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, coin is tagged as noun.
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