Coon

Quick meaning: Coon is a noun meaning (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.

Meaning

(informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.

More Meanings

1. (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
2. (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
3. (US, dated) A sly fellow.
4. (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
5. (African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
6. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
7. (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black race traitor.

Example Sentences

How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?

And that one looks Jewish, and that one's a coon! Who let all this riff-raff into the room?

‘Listen, Mr Du Toit,’ he said at last, in an obvious effort to sound light-hearted. ‘Why go to all this trouble for the sake of a bloody coon?’

There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair.

Word Forms

• coons
• cooning
• cooned

Synonyms for coon

Depending on context, synonyms include Oreo.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nigra, spade, ringtail, sanders, raccoon, rabbit.

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