Coaster
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Coaster may refer to:
- A small piece of material, usually composed of wood or of cardboard, used to prevent a drink and its container from contacting a surface, such as a table, and leaving marks from drips or condensation.
- A beermat is a species of this kind of coaster.
- Roller coaster
- Coastal trading vessel
- San Diego Coaster (commuter rail service)
- A recordable optical disc (e.g. CD-R, DVD-R) which has not been properly recorded, thus becoming useless as a data storage medium. The implication is that the plastic disc now is only useful as beverage coaster; similarly arrived-at terms for other objects include "brick", "doorstop" and "paperweight". The term 'coaster' can also be used pejoratively to describe disc-based media which has been properly recorded (movies, video games, music, etc.) but contains content that is considered too worthless for the disc to be used as anything other than a coaster.
- A person associated with a certain coast. In New Zealand, for example, coaster refers to a person from the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand; in universities in the Midwestern United States, a coaster may be from the East or West Coasts of that country, as opposed to a local
- A member of The Coasters, an American doo-wop band.
- Toyota Coaster, a minibus manufactured by Toyota Motor Corporation
- Woven Rug Coaster Rug Coasters