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Example sentences for: loonie
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Mulroney rhymes with loonie .
An economics professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia is urging Canadians to ditch the "loonie," as the country's dollar is fondly called, and join a monetary union with the United States.
The Mint, as usual, is no help—they refer to the new coin unimaginatively as the two-dollar coin, so the letters columns of every newspaper in the country have been filled with speculation and suggestions for a slang term for this new coin, which is slightly larger than the loonie, gold-coloured and polygonal (like the loonie), but with a silver centre with a polar bear pictured on it.
Canada almost didn't have a loonie.
Although the terms loonie , a diminutive noun from loon , and loony , an adjective (ultimately) from lunar are etymologically distinct, their similarity has encouraged obvious satirical connections: our economy, which is loony, has as its fundamental unit of currency the loonie; many felt that the policies of Brian Mulroney were loony.