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Encyclopedia > Coaster

Coaster can refer to:

A glass with a ceramic coaster under it.
A glass with a ceramic coaster under it.
  • Roller coaster
  • Coastal trading vessel
  • San Diego Coaster (commuter rail service)
  • 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 a mark. To protect the surface or a table or of a bar from drips or from condensation, drinkers or waiters position a coaster before parking a glass on top of that coaster. A beermat is this kind of coaster. (see picture)
  • a recordable optical disc which has not been recorded properly, and thus is useless as a data storage medium; by implication its only use is as a drink coaster
  • a person associated with a certain coast. In New Zealand, specifically, coaster refers to a person from the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

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The Coasters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (429 words)
The Coasters were an American doo wop and early rock and roll group, evolving from The Robins, a Los Angeles based doo wop group.
The Coasters continued their association with the Robins' legendary songwriters, Leiber and Stoller.
Earl Speedo Carroll (formerly and nowadays with The Cadillacs) and Ronnie Bright (from The Valentines became new tenor and bass singers and The Coasters signed with Columbia Records, but were never able to regain their former fame.
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