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Also see: box
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
coin/kɔɪn/
▶noun
- 1 a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money.
■ money in the form of coins.
- 2 (coins) one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to pentacles in others.
- 1 make (coins) by stamping metal.
■ Brit. informal earn (large amounts of money) quickly and easily: the company was coining it in.
- 2 invent (a new word or phrase).
– phrases
pay someone back in their own coin retaliate by similar behaviour.
to coin a phrase said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one.
pay someone back in their own coin retaliate by similar behaviour.
to coin a phrase said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one.
– derivatives
coiner noun.
coiner noun.
– origin ME: from OFr. coin ‘wedge, corner, die’, coigner ‘to mint’, from L. cuneus ‘wedge’.

