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racoon

British  
/ rəˈkuːn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of raccoon

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“If a man’s coming through my window or a bear or a racoon — it doesn’t matter,” she said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Similar strategies have already been carried out to prevent racoon rabies in the U.S. and fox rabies in Europe, and also to protect cattle against tick-borne disease.

From Science Daily • Oct. 18, 2023

In 1926, someone sent a live racoon to the White House, with the idea that the first family could have it for dinner.

From Salon • Apr. 9, 2023

"We saw the results appear on our screens, and it was: racoon dog, racoon dog, racoon dog, racoon dog," she recalled.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2023

And in his early days of ushering, he’d once Recollected with a racoon who’d belonged to Pain, and quite frankly, he saw things he could not unsee.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

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