Definition of Coin box

1. Noun. The part of a slot machine that serves as a receptacle for the coins.

Generic synonyms: Receptacle
Group relationships: Coin Machine, Slot Machine

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coin Box

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coimetrophobia
coimmunoprecipitate
coimmunoprecipitated
coimmunoprecipitates
coimmunoprecipitating
coimmunoprecipitation
coimmunoprecipitations
coin
coin-counting
coin-op
coin-operated
coin-ops
coin bank
coin blank
coin box (current term)
coin collecting
coin collection
coin collector
coin dispenser
coin lesion of lungs
coin machine
coin silver
coin slot
coin test
coinable
coinage
coinages
coinbox
coinboxes

Literary usage of Coin box

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

1. Annotated Consolidated Laws of the State of New York: As Amended to January by Clarence Frank Birdseye, Robert Cushing Cumming, Frank Bixby Gilbert, New York (State). (1916)
"Obtaining property or the use of property by fraudulently operating a slot machine, coin-box telephone or other coin receptacle. ..."

2. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"coin box, Automatic and Manual, Local Free, Toll Cash.—This service requires no electrical connection between the telephone and the coin box. ..."

3. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"The door of the coin box is secured by an ingenious combination lock, ... At the right a heavy sheet-iron plate carrying the coin box is secured to the rear ..."

4. Penal Law and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the State of New York by New York (State)., John Tracy Fitzpatrick (1918)
"Obtaining property or the use of property by fraudulently operating a slot machine, coin-box telephone or other coin receptacle. ..."

5. Commission Leaflets by Legal dept, American Telephone and Telegraph Company (1918)
"The suggestion that coin box or prepayment telephones shall hereafter be used in ... coin box telephones are, of course, available at present for so-called ..."

6. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"Nickel prepayment service to be furnished by means of instruments equipped with coin box and slot or similar device, as follows: one-party line, ..."

7. A Calendar of Leading Experiments by William Suddards Franklin, Barry MacNutt (1918)
"The coin box.—Nothing, perhaps, is more familiar than a silver coin, and in a certain United ... We, the authors, find that the coin box is almost sure ..."

8. Materials of Corporation Finance by Charles William Gerstenberg (1915)
"A recording device that will show to the subscriber the number of coins or slugs that have gone into the coin box would be popular with the subscriber and ..."

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