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coin-op

a. Operated by coins. n. A coin-operated device, such as an arcade game or penny arcade.

Usage examples of "coin-op".

There were Irish families crammed into basements, and pregnant housewives chain-smoking on the stoops, and bendy old men in flares and parched gym-shoes drinking tinned beer under the warm breath of the coin-op.

I took out a coin-op crated automatic surgeon capable of implanting the bud of a new organ: it didn't fit the era, and it made things too easy for the killer.