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  • verb Present participle of coin.
  • noun uncountable A form of alternative medicine from Southeast Asia where a coin is rubbed vigorously on a patient's oiled skin.
  • noun countable, linguistics A newly created word or phrase

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Examples

  • Mr. Bezos, This type of coining is just a really cool way to showcase what now is the Worlds Largest

    Neatorama Penny Pyramid 2009

  • This is my experiment in coining a Technorati tag.

    inkblurt · Tag Coining Experiment: Metafatigue 2005

  • Some readers seemed more interested in expressing a point of view than in coining a word.

    Word Fugitives 2007

  • Some readers seemed more interested in expressing a point of view than in coining a word.

    Word Fugitives 2007

  • The Hindus also learned the art of coining from the Greeks, or possibly from the Chinese, and the stores of Greco-Hindu coins still found in northern India are a constant source of historical information. [

    The Hindu-Arabic Numerals David Eugene Smith 1902

  • So, I've got one of the longer bookshelves on recreational word coining in the English-speaking world, I would like to think.

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

  • The Atlantic's "Ms. Grammar" (aka Barbara Wallraff) talks about wordplay, recreational word coining, and her new book, Word Fugitives.

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

  • I took an interest in this question when researching the book, and tracing back the history, you start to think, well, what is the difference between recreational word coining and regular word coining?

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

  • The Atlantic's "Ms. Grammar" (aka Barbara Wallraff) talks about wordplay, recreational word coining, and her new book, Word Fugitives.

    Word Fugitives 2006

  • The holy grail of contemporary word coining — and this is not recreational — is a singular personal pronoun that means he or she.

    Sniglets and Slithy Toves 2006

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