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the basic unit of money in Canada
the Canadian dollar has the image of loon on one side of the coin
How To Use loonie In A Sentence
- I can't pretend that they will suit everyone (particularly the loonier ones). Times, Sunday Times
- -- Tis a gift to be feeble tis a gift to be asleep, tis a gift tocow-touw to the fascistcreep, andif we find ourselves in a FEMA camp tonight, we will know that the loonies and kooks were right. OpEdNews - Diary: The Purpose and Practice of Sarcasm
- The loonie is a seven-gram, 11-sided disk - technically a hendecagon - 26.5 millimetres in diameter and 1.75 millimetres thick.
- In this rare moment, Tessa wonders whether she and the other Bradys are the loonier ones. Amaryllis in Blueberry
- I was right there with the loonies, making the cocoa, talking to the emptiness. GO!
- The dollar coin is called a loonie, because there's a picture of a loon (the bird) on one side. It's the little things
- They dubbed the cavalrymen “Grub scout,” “Kitchen ranger,” “Bomb Proof,” “Buttermilk spies,” and “Loonies.” Cavalryman of the Lost Cause
- 'I haven't got time to sit listening to loonies ,' she said. MR STARLIGHT
- The value of the loonie discouraged 17 per cent of Canadians from travelling outside the country while one per cent did not know or refused to answer.
- As for the assertion, "One of the recipients, Minnesota Rep. Michelle Bachmann, is even loonier than Palin. Palin's PAC steps up contributions to GOP candidates