coin slot
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- noun
:
ranura para monedas
- Street in front of Lakeview Lunch Day... there is a close-up on a hand pulling back from the coin slot.
Examples
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There are scratches all around the coin slot.
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Nick turns back to the machine and pops the quarter into the coin slot.
Fiction book (1993) -
Alex grabs a second quarter and shoves it in the coin slot.
Fiction book (1993) -
He shoves one in ARCADE's coin slot and pulls on the CyberGloves.
Fiction book (1993) -
Nick turns back to the machine and pops the quarter into the coin slot.
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I balance my way back to the driver and drop them into the coin slot.
Synonyms
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A narrow opening for putting things in, like cards or coins
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and literally composed from 'coin' (small metal money) + 'slot' (a narrow slit/opening); a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it as the opening where coins are inserted. This noun+noun compound is a transparent, cross-linguistically common composition and follows straightforward English compounding patterns.
Etymology
Coin slot comes from a simple picture: a small, narrow opening where you push a coin into a machine. Because coin names the money and slot names the thin gap, the phrase means 'the opening where you put coins'.