Definition of Loonie

1. Noun. The basic unit of money in Canada. "The Canadian dollar has the image of loon on one side of the coin"

Exact synonyms: Canadian Dollar
Generic synonyms: Dollar

Definition of Loonie

1. Noun. (Canada informal) The Canadian dollar (both the coin and the monetary unit). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Loonie

1. a coin worth one Canadian dollar [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Loonie

looky
lool
lools
loom
loom large
loomed
looming
loomingly
looms
loon
looner
looners
looney
looney-tunes
looneys
loonie (current term)
loonier
loonies
looniest
loonily
looniness
looninesses
looning
loonings
loons
loony
loony bin
loony bins
loony left
loony lefty

Literary usage of Loonie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New-York Legal Observer by Samuel Owen (1854)
"... loonie and Others, Appellants, against ROBERT HOGAN Respondent. Under an agreement, by the terms of which F. 4 W. were to ..."

2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1892)
"GA BRETT, PJ, Section BPJ loonie brought tille rait against the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway Company and Western Union Telegraph Company to recover ..."

3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1920)
"JJ Gaffney, for the plaintiff loonie. JA Vitelli, for the intervening ... On August 8, 1918, the plaintiff loonie made a motion in the Superior Court that ..."

4. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1920)
"JJ Gaffney, for the plaintiff loonie. JA Vitelli, for the intervening ... On August 8, 1918, the plaintiff loonie made a motion in the Superior Court that ..."

5. Notes on Texas Reports: A Chronological Series of Annotations of the ...by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, Texas Supreme Court, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (1910)
"636, mere fact that one it a subcontractor does not entitle him to a statutory mechanic's lien; loonie v. Frank, 51 Tex. 408, subcontractor not entitled to ..."

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