a flat disc or piece of metal with an official stamp, used as money:she opened her purse and took out a coingold and silver coins
[mass noun] money in the form of coins:large amounts of coin and precious metal
(coins) one of the suits in some tarot packs, corresponding to pentacles in others.
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Universal
1make (coins) by stamping metal:guineas and half-guineas were coined
make (metal) into coins.
British informal earn a lot of (money) quickly and easily:the company was coining it in at the rate of £90 a second
2invent (a new word or phrase):he coined the term ‘desktop publishing’
the other side of the coin
the opposite aspect of a matter:many jobs have been lost, but the other side of the coin is that firms may now be hiring more workers
pay someone back in their own coin
retaliate by similar behaviour:paying Diane back in her own coin always seemed to backfire
to coin a phrase
said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one, or ironically to show one’s awareness that one is using a hackneyed expression:she was, to coin a phrase, swept off her feet
