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What is a coiner?

What is a coiner? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A person who makes coins (often counterfeit coins).
  2. A person who invents words or phrases.
  3. (obsolete) A person who invents or fabricates (stories, lies, etc.).
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The doctor must have gained a great deal of money by his skill as a coiner.
I have few equals as a coiner, and if you should require a medal struck to give away for good behavior or the like, I think I could strike one to your satisfaction.
Whoever was the coiner, the word was popularized by the Star Wars and Star Trek series of films and television shows and now is part of Hollywood linguistic lore.
But the analogy is, sadly, more apposite than its coiner may have realised.
Dyson, coiner of the lovely phrase about the non-transferability of genius, should know that.
Up here in New York, another wise woman was surprised and delighted by the fuss down there in Washington: the coiner of the phrase, Suzanne Nossel.

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