coon
Informal. raccoon.
Slang: Extremely Disparaging and Offensive. a contemptuous term used to refer to a Black person.
Informal. a fellow, especially a rustic or undignified person: Go home, you old coon!
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How to use coon in a sentence
And one of their commentators accidentally called Martin Luther King Jr. “Martin Luther King coon Jr.” on the air.
Brer Rabbit aint dar, en it tu'n out dat Brer coon is de man w'at seed 'im las'.
Nights With Uncle Remus | Joel Chandler HarrisBetter give it up, Mr. coon; we have caught you and there is no use denying it now.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker"Go ahead and look," said Mr. coon, opening the door and standing aside for them to enter.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips WalkerOf course they found the spoons, and when Mr. coon saw them he almost fell over.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker
He went upstairs and put those spoons between Mr. coon's feather beds.
Sandman's Goodnight Stories | Abbie Phillips Walker
British Dictionary definitions for coon
/ (kuːn) /
informal short for raccoon
offensive, slang a Black person or a native Australian
Southern African offensive a person of mixed race
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