coin
/kɔɪn/ verb [T]Definition
› to be the first person who uses a new word or phrase: The Czech playwright, Capek, coined the word 'robot'.
to coin a phrase › something you say before using a common expression: Still, to coin a phrase, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
(Definition of coin verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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