Usually means: Flat surface for resting drinks.
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  1. coaster: Merriam-Webster
  2. coaster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coaster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coaster: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coaster: Vocabulary.com
  6. Coaster, coaster: Wordnik
  7. coaster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. coaster: Wiktionary
  9. coaster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coaster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coaster: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Coaster, coaster: Dictionary.com
  13. coaster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. COASTER, Coaster (San Diego), Coaster (album), Coaster (commuter rail), Coaster (video game), Coaster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coaster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coaster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coaster: Rhymezone
  18. Coaster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. coaster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. coaster: FreeDictionary.org
  21. coaster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. coaster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. coaster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. Coaster (San Diego), coaster: Encyclopedia

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  1. coaster: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coaster, coaster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See coastering as well.)

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noun:  A person who originates from or inhabits a coastal area.
noun:  (nautical)
noun:  A sailor (especially the master or pilot of a vessel) who travels only in coastal waters.
noun:  A merchant vessel that stays in coastal waters, especially one that travels between ports of the same country.
noun:  (US) A cow from the coastal part of Texas.
noun:  (slang, dated) A prostitute, especially one of European descent, plying her trade in Chinese port towns.
noun:  Agent noun of coast: one who coasts.
noun:  (Australia, slang) An itinerant person who shirks work but still seeks food and lodging; a loafer, a sundowner.
noun:  (US, winter sports) A person who uses a sled or toboggan to slide down a slope covered with ice or snow; a sledder, a tobogganist.
noun:  One who succeeds while making only a minimal effort.
noun:  Something that coasts or is used to coast.
noun:  (dated) A small stand or tray, sometimes with wheels, used to pass something such as a decanter or wine bottle around a tabletop.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a table surface from drink spills, heat, or water condensation.
noun:  (computing, slang) A useless compact disc or DVD, such as one that was burned incorrectly or has become corrupted.
noun:  (US, winter sports) A sled or toboggan.
noun:  (Canada, US) Short for coaster trout (“the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) in Lake Superior and Maine”).
noun:  (US, informal) Short for rollercoaster. [An amusement ride consisting of a train on a track that rises, falls, twists and turns.]

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