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Pay, as in salary or hourly wage.
"Dude, with a job title like Assistant Manager, you should be pulling down some major COINAGE."

"My dear board members, as CEO, I recommend for myself some huge COINAGE and a golden parachute!"
by DrDave8 December 26, 2006
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Mercury retrograde is the act of taking a shit whilst mooning one or more human beings. Your day can typically being going well, according to your horoscope, until you are forced into witnessing Mercury retrograde. Performing Mercury retrograde will often speed the astrological cycle forward for the individual performing the Mercury retrograde, bringing about happy and fruitful times to come.
As the sun sank down over the pier, the children fishing gazed in horror as the lard-ass on his flat bottom boat sent the lakeshore into Mercury retrograde.
by BatWingg May 17, 2021
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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.
by Slick Willy March 16, 2005
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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
by Jasmeena May 09, 2007
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Money in the form of metal coin, shrapnel,
Do you have any coinage for the drink machine?
by jyther January 28, 2004
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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!
by run4urmony February 09, 2011
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To give out chocolate coins to other people for free.
"Does anybody want coinage?"
"yes please" "oh yum"
by David 2208 December 20, 2007
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