name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
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Colloquial Variant guide
coon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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US: /kun/
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UK: /kuːn/
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rhymes with -uːn
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CMU ARPABET: K UW1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A black person.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
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noun
Meaning 3
A raccoon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, informal
Examples
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter IX. "The Sea and the Desert", page 187. He also said that minks, muskrats, foxes, coons, and wild mice were found there, but no squirrels.
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Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Meaning 4
A black race traitor.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur
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Synonyms: Oreo, Uncle Tom
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: South-Africa, informal
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noun
Meaning 6
A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, ethnic, slur
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noun
Meaning 7
A sly fellow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US, dated
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noun
Meaning 8
A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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verb
Meaning 9
To hunt raccoons.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, colloquial
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verb
Meaning 10
To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climbing, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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verb
Meaning 11
To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, colloquial
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verb
Meaning 12
To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Georgia, colloquial
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verb
Meaning 13
To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: African-American Vernacular
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verb
Meaning 14
To steal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Southern-US, colloquial, dated
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noun
Meaning 15
North American raccoon
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: common raccoon, common racoon, ringtail, Procyon lotor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: raccoon, racoon
noun
Meaning 16
an eccentric or undignified rustic
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- I'll be a gone coon when the battle starts
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rustic
noun
Meaning 17
(ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- only a Black can call another Black a nigga
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: nigger, nigga, spade, jigaboo, nigra
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
History
Etymology
Clipping of raccoon.