Definitions for coin

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coin coin

Spelling: [koin]

IPA: /kɔɪn/

Coin is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 25 anagrams from letters in coin (cino).

Definitions for coin

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:
4. Architecture. quoin (defs 1, 2).
5. Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century.

Idioms

1. coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly:
2. pay someone back in his / her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, especially inamicably; retaliate:
3. the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.

adjective

1. operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot:

noun, adjective

1. counterinsurgency.

verb (used with object)

1. to make (coinage) by stamping metal:
2. to convert (metal) into coinage:
3. to make; invent; fabricate:
4. Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss (def 3).

verb (used without object)

1. British Informal. to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.

Origin of coin

1300-50; Middle English coyn(e), coygne Anglo-French; Middle French coin, cuigne wedge, corner, die Latin cuneus wedge

Examples for coin

He raised the covering hand, and peered at the coin in the gathering gloom.

But the other side of the coin would be, inevitably, the flowering of crime and corruption around the gambling business.

However, Vladimir Putin has stepped it up and is giving us the opportunity to coin a new phrase connoting residency in crazy town.

What's any of them little haythen been coin' to scare ye, missy?

"I had to coin a name for the place of meeting," he said to Mrs. Roberts afterwards.

Backstage, a coin toss determined the order for each of the battles.

For much of Hollywood history, stars like Cruise were the coin of the realm; now the industry has stopped minting new models.

Last of all, there was the explosion, the carrying off of the coin in its canvas sacks to the horses.

She was gambling on a coin toss where somehow “heads, you win” would have been politically more advantageous than “tails, I lose.”

They had best take care he did not pay them in their own coin.