Dictionary Definition
coon
Noun
1 an eccentric or undignified rustic; "I'll be a
gone coon when the battle starts"
2 (ethnic slur) offensive name for a Black
person; "only a Black can call another Black a nigga" [syn:
nigger, nigga, spade, jigaboo, nigra]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -uːn
Noun
- informal chiefly Southern US A raccoon.
- In the context of "racial slur}} A black person.
Extensive Definition
Coon can refer to:
- an abbreviation for raccoon
- the Maine Coon, a breed of domestic american cat
- an ethnic slur used in American, Australian and British English for people of African or aboriginal Australian descent
- Coon cheese, an Australian brand of cheddar cheese
- Coon Carnival, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa
Places
- Coon Creek Township, Minnesota in the USA,
- Coon Rapids, Iowa in the USA,
- Coon Rapids, Minnesota in the USA,
- Coon Valley, Wisconsin in the USA,
- Coon village in north-east Kilkenny (Ireland) home to St Martin's hurling club.
People
- Carleton Stevens Coon, an American physical anthropologist
- Edward William Coon invented a technique for fast maturation of cheese
- Gene L. Coon was an American screenwriter and television producer
- Jeremy Coon, credited as a producer of Napoleon Dynamite
- Zip Coon, a character created by blackface performer George Washington Dixon, giving rise to the eponymous ethnic slur
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