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the act of coining or inventing new words
Few acts are as conceited, supercilious, and trite as coinage of contrived words, most of which will never see their day in the vernacular.
coinage by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
Using a large amount of coins to pay for an item to lighten purse baggage often pissing off the checkout staff.
Checkout: Thats $5.35 thanks

Person: brings out change

Checkout: 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c 5c... hold on..5c..10c..15c..20c *1 minute passes

Person: Sorry about the coinage

Checkout: Thanks, and stuffs the rest into the till

Checkout later finds that the till is down on money
coinage by Jasmeena May 24, 2007
Money in the form of metal coin, shrapnel,
Do you have any coinage for the drink machine?
coinage by jyther January 28, 2004
Coinage is to guys as cleavage is to chicks. Guys have big money, girls have big boobs.
Girl: Whoa, eric has some major coinage!

Guy: Dude, Check out Cindys cleavage! theres like no gap!
Coinage by run4urmony February 27, 2011
To give out chocolate coins to other people for free.
"Does anybody want coinage?"
"yes please" "oh yum"
coinage by David 2208 January 8, 2008
Term used by Conor Mcgrgeor’s father
Tony Mcgrgeor. Large amounts of coins often to many.
“They had the cheek to give me back coinage when I paid for my ticket”