coin purse
coin purse noun: a small bag or pouch designed for carrying money, particularly coins.
Noun
coin purse (plural coin purses)
- A small bag or pouch designed for carrying money, particularly coins.
- “I have gold,” Mananda repeated to the men as they drew closer, and he shook his coin purse, ringing the coins together.2007, Alissa Hall, Slave of God: A Devadasi's Tale, Raven's Perch Press, published 2007, →ISBN, page 368
- As I grabbed my donuts and turned, all the change from my coin purse flew out and landed all over the store floor, under twenty sets of feet.2011, Rebecca Foster, The Beaches: A Journey of Answers, iUniverse, published 2011, →ISBN, page 28
- Synonyms:
- change purse
- Testicles.
- Before YouTube debuted with countless videos of dudes getting kicked in the coin purse, one of the hottest things on the Internet was Laid Off, a series of animated shorts about a guy in a blue bathrobe who reflects on his joblessness.2007 March 23, Ryan Ball, “Web Favorite ‘Odd’ Todd Rosenberg”, in Animation Magazine
- That is partially what was so great about the brief interaction between Kevin Love and Louis Scola the other night. It was malicious, perhaps, and invites us to qualify dirty play and physical play, but it was a shade of Laimbeer – boys being boys. A week or so ago, Scola had chicken legged Love –...2012 February 7, Peter Cavanaugh, “Reviewing the Kevin Love face stomp”, in Impose
- Synonyms:
- testicles
- a type of theatrical performance undergarment used to hide male genitalia, by stuffing it into a pouch with a drawstring, to simulate being nude
- Synonyms:
- coin pouch
coin purse meaning in Tagalog
coin purse in Tagalog
- small bag or pouch for coins
- halapot
Examples of coin purse in a sentence
- “I can't find the change I got from the gas station.” She snapped open her coin purse in hopes that she'd stuck it there.2013, Elizabeth Bass, The Way Back to Happiness, Kensington Books, published 2013, →ISBN:
- A week or so ago, Scola had chicken legged Love – a la every schoolyard basketball game – while attempting to save the ball from going out of bounds, only he tagged Love in his coin purse.2012 February 7, Peter Cavanaugh, “Reviewing the Kevin Love face stomp”, in Impose:
- The classy trend of kneeing a man in his coin purse once seemed fresh.2013 January 24, “A brief history of movie characters getting whacked in the balls”, in Westword, Denver, Colorado:
Synonyms of coin purse
- change purse
- testicles
- coin pouch
Forms of coin purse
| plural | coin purses |
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Questions about coin purse
- What does coin purse mean?
- Coin purse means a small bag or pouch designed for carrying money, particularly coins.
- What is coin purse in Tagalog?
- Coin purse in Tagalog is halapot. See Coin purse meaning in Tagalog.
- How do you use coin purse in a sentence?
- “I can't find the change I got from the gas station.” She snapped open her coin purse in hopes that she'd stuck it there.
- What part of speech is coin purse?
- Coin purse is a noun.
- What is the plural of coin purse?
- The plural of coin purse is coin purses.
Words near coin purse in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coin purse (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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