- a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money.
- a number of such pieces.
- money; cash: He's got plenty of coin in the bank.
- quoin (defs. 1, 2).
- a corner cupboard of the 18th century.
- operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry.
- to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies.
- to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars.
- to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression.
- to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies.
- to counterfeit, especially to make counterfeit money.
- to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money.
- 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.
- the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration.
- a metal disc or piece used as money
- metal currency, as opposed to securities, paper currency, etc
- architect a variant spelling of quoin
- to treat a person in the way that he has treated others
- the opposite view of a matter
- to make or stamp (coins)
- to make into a coin
- to fabricate or invent (words, etc)
- to make (money) rapidly (esp in the phrase coin it in)
- said ironically after one uses a cliché
