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n. Informal A raccoon.

n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.

n. A raccoon.

n. A black person.

n. A person who is a member of a colourfully dressed dancing troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.

n. A coonass.

v. To hunt racoons.

v. To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.

v. To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.

v. For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.

v. To steal.

n. A raccoon. See raccoon.

n. The racoon, Procyon lotor: a popular abbreviation.

n. [capitalized] In United States history, a nickname for a member of the Whig party in the earlier part of its history.

n. A sly, knowing person: often strengthened by prefixing old. [Colloq., U. S.]

To creep, as a coon along a branch of a tree; creep, clinging close.

n. A negro.

n. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person

n. an eccentric or undignified rustic

n. North American raccoon

"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.’”"

Negro    black person    black    Negroid    blackamoor    rustic    racoon    raccoon   

a coon's age    to go the whole coon    a gone coon    to hunt the same old coon   

raccoon   

coonskin    coon's age    coon hound    coonhound    coon cat    coon it   

Bethune    Boone    Calhoun    June    Karun    Kuhn    Moon    Noone    Rangoon    Sassoon   

raccoon    muskrat    otter    weasel    badger    woodchuck    skunk    beaver    porcupine    jerboa