coon
IPA: kˈun
noun
- (ethnic slur) A black person.
- (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
- (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
- (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
- (US, dated) A sly fellow.
- (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.
- A surname.
verb
- (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
- (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
- (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
- (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
- (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American English) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- (Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
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Examples of "coon" in Sentences
- It's coon dog, coon, persimmon tree.
- Coon did not even create the category.
- Coon did not have an entry inWikipedia.
- Night of the Bandits of the Night Coons
- Night of the Bandits of the Night Coons
- Coon continued with coursework at Harvard.
- Coon at least looks into literary history.
- Coons' interpolates if the data is functional.
- Coon played for the Philadelphia Athletics in and.
- Coon's reference to Behemoth is a ridiculous reference.
- Starting out with a rolling cage with a live coon is best.
- One of them shouted out, 'What do you call a coon in a suit?
- M. Stone & T. Parker used the word coon to provoke, obviously.
- "That's what I called the coon's dodge of 'barking a tree,'" said Cyrus.
- I guy mentioned them being as big as a main coon housecat, I dont know what this is but the biggest bobcat I ever caught weighed 42 pounds.
- I have a problem with a racoon in my barn, so I set up a live trap but the coon is to big for the trap so when it is set off th | Field & Stream
- I have a problem with a racoon in my barn, so I set up a live trap but the coon is to big for the trap so when it is set off the door just sits on his but so he can back out of it.
- Eric Lott and other scholars have argued that expressions of antiblack racism by Irish Americans—such as the lynchings of blacks during the New York City draft riots of 1863, or their invention of the word coon, or the deliberate attempts by some to belittle blacks in minstrel performances—were efforts to hide “their resemblance, in both class and ethnic terms, to ‘blackness.’”