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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to a machine that requires money to be inserted before use.

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  • adjective Operated, or activated by placing coins in a slot

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  • adjective of devices that do not operate without the prior insertion of one or more coins

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Examples

  • I know I blathered about my travel troubles, remember us laughing about coin-operated internet, but I have to confess I was probably a bit ... distracted, watching the rest of the audience file in.

    Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 2: That Toddlin Town Hal Duncan 2010

  • Theirs was a city of mechanical marvels, and it boasted among its novelties "automatic doors and hydraulic lifts, hidden treadmills and coin-operated machines."

    Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana Marie Arana 2010

  • Yep, this is the site panicking travellers are directed to by the browsers on Heathrow's coin-operated interwebs -- a site trying to rook them of fifty bucks for no more than an email with "application instructions."

    Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Yep, this is the site panicking travellers are directed to by the browsers on Heathrow's coin-operated interwebs -- a site trying to rook them of fifty bucks for no more than an email with "application instructions."

    Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 1: Chicago or Bust Hal Duncan 2010

  • COMPUTER SPACE ... one of the first (or the first) coin-operated video games that appeared in the early 70s ......

    Great retro items from the 70s and before... Randy Wilharm 2009

  • I know I blathered about my travel troubles, remember us laughing about coin-operated internet, but I have to confess I was probably a bit ... distracted, watching the rest of the audience file in.

    Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • Cigarette machines, candy machines, and coin-operated washers and dryers could all bring easy profits, especially if competition was limited.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • He is working on the sale of a coin-operated laundry for $320,000, which would bring home a $15,000 commission.

    More Elderly Find They Can't Afford Not to Work Kelly Greene 2012

  • Cigarette machines, candy machines, and coin-operated washers and dryers could all bring easy profits, especially if competition was limited.

    Kill the Irishman Rick Porrello 2011

  • COMPUTER SPACE ... one of the first (or the first) coin-operated video games that appeared in the early 70s ......

    Archive 2009-11-01 Randy Wilharm 2009

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