ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Cooncan

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Cooncan is a noun meaning (card games) A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.

Meaning

(card games) A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.

Example Sentences

Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.
There was not a dull moment in the dinner for me—nor afterwards when the boys and girls at the piano played the rag-time tunes of their own land, while their elders, inexhaustibly interested, replunged into the discussions of that land's future, till there was talk of coon-can.

Synonyms for cooncan

Depending on context, synonyms include conquian.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include conquian, codille, coin, crimp, crib, cockalorum.

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