Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A commercial establishment equipped with self-service washing machines and dryers that are coin-operated.
- adjective Coin-operated.
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- adjective Operated by
coins . - noun A
coin -operated device, such as anarcade game orpenny arcade .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Open until 6am, the bar offers multiplayer games on giant flat-screens as well as coin-op arcade classics: The line outside stretched halfway around the block - but, fortunately, I'm with Tony so there's no waiting.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Twenty One: From Sin City to Sim City -- Tony Hsieh's Plan to Rebuild Downtown Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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Open until 6am, the bar offers multiplayer games on giant flat-screens as well as coin-op arcade classics: The line outside stretched halfway around the block - but, fortunately, I'm with Tony so there's no waiting.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Twenty One: From Sin City to Sim City -- Tony Hsieh's Plan to Rebuild Downtown Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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The car dealers are among a handful of small-scale enterprises—ranging from a coin-op laundry to restaurants, gas stations and shops—that have managed to resume operations in this badly damaged community.
In Tsunami's Wake, a Car-Sales Boom Makoto Miyazaki 2011
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Open until 6am, the bar offers multiplayer games on giant flat-screens as well as coin-op arcade classics: The line outside stretched halfway around the block - but, fortunately, I'm with Tony so there's no waiting.
Paul Carr: The Strip Diary, Day Twenty One: From Sin City to Sim City -- Tony Hsieh's Plan to Rebuild Downtown Vegas Paul Carr 2011
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The poorly maintained coin-op pool tables went from $1.00/play to $1.50/play after my first year. were When questioned about it, "You're paying for convenience." was the response.
But Slower Shows Simplified Wikipedia Pages And Their Originals | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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Convincing him to pick up a plastic shotgun and play "Big Buck Safari" on our office coin-op machine.
‘Daybreakers’ Star Willem Dafoe Goes On A Virtual Shotgun Safari » MTV Movies Blog 2010
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Two of them were the Metal Gears you've already heard of, one online coin-op arcade Metal Gear that will start in Japan and then aim overseas (though I'm skeptical Konami can really launch arcades in the U.S. and Europe in any kind of visible way) -- and then he announced he's supporting Spanish studio MercurySteam on the next Castlevania.
Archive 2009-06-01 SVGL 2009
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Two of them were the Metal Gears you've already heard of, one online coin-op arcade Metal Gear that will start in Japan and then aim overseas (though I'm skeptical Konami can really launch arcades in the U.S. and Europe in any kind of visible way) -- and then he announced he's supporting Spanish studio MercurySteam on the next Castlevania.
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Artist Brock Davis put together 3 pieces of impressionist art based on classic coin-op arcade games.
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They work out of the breakfast nook, subsist on Subway sandwiches and donated chili dinners, and make frequent visits to the coin-op laundry.
Democratic legislators embracing tactic to gain leverage: Fleeing 2011
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