coin n.
1. (also coyn, coyne) money.
![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Epigrams upon Proverbs xliiii: Thy hande is on thy halfpeny, and must John: / For thou hast no more coyne to set thy hande on. | |
| Apologie of the School of Abuse (1868) 69: Delighting thee as much with hope of my coyne, as my self was pleased with the sounde of thy instrument. | |
| Notable Discovery of Coosnage in Grosart (1881–3) X 50: Rather to spend their coine amongest honest companie than to bequeath it to such base cros-biters. | |
| Jacke Drums Entertainment Act I: Oh but so great a masse of coyne might mount from wholesome thrift. | |
| Laugh and Be Fat 42: He is not taking my Lords coyne for current. | |
| Fine Companion II v: I haue not ready coyne. | |
| Nights Search I 30: How happy should he be, had he but coyne! | |
| ‘The Country Lover’s Conquest’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1891) VII:2 339: What care I for coyn, since I have a stock? | |
| Mercurius Fumigosus 18 27 Sept.–4 Oct. 160: Whilst that beastly Cook to get his Coyne, / Will dress the stinking Devill in the Swine. | |
| ‘The Cavalier’s Complaint’ in Merry Drollery Compleat (1875) 53: My Coyn is spent, my time is lost. | |
| ‘The Jovial Beggars Merry Crew’ in Bagford Ballads (1878) II 879: Tho’ we like Beggars seem to live, / We have more coyn than some that give. | |
| ‘The Norwich Loyal Litany’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V:1 187: And may the Prick-ear’d Party that / Have Coyn enough in Cupboard, / Forbear to shiver an Estate. | |
| ‘Newes from More-lane’ in Roxburghe Ballads (1893) VII:1 56: As for the merry weaver’s wife, I will give her, her due / She spent her coyne to end the strife among that joviall crew. | |
| London-Bawd (1705) 71: She [...] was supplied with Money likewise, without robbing of her Husband of his Coin. | |
| in Pills to Purge Melancholy II 65: You, Sharper-like, shew Wit, / And cunningly all my Coyn you get. | |
| (trans.) Adventures of Gil Blas I 59: He [...] then went away with his attendants and my coin. | |
| ‘The Point’ in Songs Comic and Satyrical 227: The Topers with Wine, / The Misers with Coin. | |
| Oliver Twist (1966) 351: ‘I haven’t a piece of coin about me,’ replied the Jew. | |
| Sinks of London Laid Open 93: Lodgers who, having run out of coin and out of credit, were allowed [...] to lie about the kitchen. | |
| Wild Boys of London I 5/2: I’ll get you some coin. | |
| Old Hunks in Darkey Drama 5 52: My good old hard-hearted fader, forgive my rending your coat and spending your coin! | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Lays of Ind (1905) 186: It wouldn't surprise me to find you believing / That magnates still spend half their coin in receiving. | |
| Cremorne III 91: We got back safe at last, I had coin in my fob. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Bulletin (Sydney) 7 Feb. 13/3: And there was the galling spectacle of the Pole within sight, and the posters for the next Hamburg lottery, which were to adorn it and draw the coin from the Esquimo softees, rotting in the hold. | |
| Sporting Times 18 Jan. 2: The Resident Brighton Young Man [...] [is] not over-burdened with coin. | |
| [perf. Marie Lloyd] I Like You and You Like Me 🎵 I want each one to join and help me spend the coin. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Powers That Prey 32: You coppers got to help him. I ain’t going to have the Eye people snake in all the loose coin; I give it to you straight. | |
| ‘Dads Wayback’ in Sun. Times (Sydney) 24 Aug. 9/6: ‘[T]he young ’uns wants handsome husbin’s with plenty o’ coin’. | |
| Pitcher in Paradise 6: We had to admit [...] that Dick Turpin the Second was not going to connect with the coin. | |
| Torchy 37: I watch them jays [...] payin’ their coin to see things that I shut my eyes on every day. | |
| ‘The Septagon’ in Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 11: If you have something that somebody else wants, that somebody else will buy that something, and pay you in coin. | |
| Truth (Brisbane) 27 Apr. 5/7: 'Come across with the mazums; come clean, divvy. I want the coin, see?’. | |
| Nigger Heaven 85: You could do anything in Harlem you wanted with that bunch of coin. | |
| Green Ice (1988) 69: Two hundred grand is a lot of coin. | |
| Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Sept. 40/4: ‘You provide the coin to see the business through and we’ll split the profits fifty-fifty’. | |
| Gentlemen of the Broad Arrows 168: Kick in dose letters and de coin, mister. | |
| On Broadway 10 Jan. [synd. col.] Giving some coin to those who helped him make a fortune [...] almost killed him. | |
| We Were the Rats 84: ‘Smash, dough, fiddlies, coin, tin, hay, oot, shekels, sponduliks,’ said Gordon. ‘I’m still the highest paid member of this company.’. | |
| letter 12 Sep in Leader (2000) 139: The hotel was VERY EXPENSIVE but Hilly gave me some of her own coin to put in with my coin to give to the proprietor. | |
| Jimmy Brockett 29: The pubs were packed, because for most of the blokes today was pay-day and they were in the coin and wanted to celebrate. | |
| in Hellhole 149: I’m going to kill all them motherens that burned me for my coin over the past twelve years. | |
| Inner City Hoodlum 109: Man, it’s a lot of coin here. | |
| Hard Candy (1990) 18: There’d been a fifty-grand bounty on the Ghost Van [...] Pimps put up the coin. | |
| Llama Parlour 157: We’re talkin’ serious coin. | |
| Lairs, Urgers & Coat-Tuggers 205: ‘’N’ he wants you to bring as much coin as you can scrounge together’. | |
| College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Coins (noun) Money. | |
| (con. 1964–8) Cold Six Thousand 4: Wayne laid out Wayne Senior [...] He had coin. He had pull. | |
| More You Bet 67: ‘Money’ [...] might also be referred to as ‘cash’, or ‘coin’, or ‘oscar’, or ‘moolah’, or ‘notes’, or ‘bills’, or ‘chips’ or ‘brass’, or ‘dosh’, or ‘dough’, or ‘bread’, or ‘biscuits’, or ‘bullets’, or ‘ammunition’. | |
| Donnybrook [ebook] Eldon was desperate to turn coin to pay his debt. | |
| Betoota-isms 200: [I]magine having enough coin to buy a Ford Ranger outright. |
2. (US black) in pl., money, whether actual coins or notes.
| Esquire July 44–45: bread—money, also ‘coins’ and ‘greens’. | |
| Down These Mean Streets (1970) 55: I’m not gonna get shit all over my peter, not for all the fuckin’ coins in the world. | |
| Hy Lit’s Unbelievable Dict. of Hip Words 9: coins – Another word for money. | |
| Ghetto Sketches 79: Why don’t you cats put your coins together and get some good wine? |
In compounds
a male homosexual prostitute.
| Queens’ Vernacular. |
In phrases
(US teen) a large amount of money.
| Hooky Gear 16: He’s my High Road to the Big Coin. |
SE in slang uses
In phrases
(Aus.) for one’s low-cut trousers to reveal the top of one’s buttocks.
| Sydney Morning Herald (Aus.) 6 Jan. n.p.: So here’s a tentative guide to Sydney teenspeak: [...] Doing a coin slot (when your low-slung, hipster jeans gape at the back to reveal the top of your bottom). |