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toonie

nounColloquial

A Canadian English slang term. Browse all Canadian slang.

What it means

  1. The Canadian two-dollar coin.

In use

  • Have you got a toonie for the parking meter?

  • Coffee and a muffin for under a toonie, once upon a time.

Where it comes from

Coined by analogy with loonie when the two-dollar coin was introduced in 1996 — 'two' plus the existing -oonie pattern. A clean example of a slang word generated by a template rather than borrowed.

First attested: 1996

Other forms

Spellings and variants:
twoonie