Meanings
plural memecoins · alternative meme coin
- businessA cryptocurrency or token that is based on a meme or has a comedic trait.
Get in on our crypto meme coin with this incredible presale offer. Each coin is just $9.95 but could be ten times worth that overnight!
2025 October 31, Trey Parker, “The Woman in the Hat”, in South Park, season 28, episode 2, spoken by Stan2 more examples
But memecoins are simply online jokes converted into digital money, worth only what people are willing to pay for them. The most famous memecoin is Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency linked to a meme of a talking Shiba Inu puppy.
2024 July 27, David Yaffe-Bellany, “A Digital Coin Based on Baby Trump? Yup.”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2024Memecoins are seen as a gauge of retail interest and risk appetite in crypto. When memecoin activity ramps up, it usually indicates that retail investors are participating and have an appetite to speculate further out on the risk curve.
2024 November 12, Tanaya Macheel, “Dogecoin spikes after Trump announces a Department of Government Efficiency — DOGE”, in CNBC, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2025
Origin
- Englishmimemeclip.
- Englishmeme
- Latincuneus
- Old Frenchcoin
- Middle Englishcoyn
- Englishcoin
- Englishmemecoin
Cite this entry
memecoin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memecoin
“memecoin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memecoin. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “memecoin,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/memecoin.
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