Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A raccoon.
- n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a Black person.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A raccoon.
- n. ethnic slur A black person.
- n. informal, South Africa A person who is a member of a colourfully dressed dancing troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
- n. A coonass.
- v. southern US, colloquial To hunt racoons.
- v. southern US, colloquial To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
- v. Georgia, colloquial To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
- v. African American Vernacular For an African American, to play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
- v. southern US, colloquial, dated To steal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A raccoon. See raccoon.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (ethnic slur) extremely offensive name for a Black person
- n. an eccentric or undignified rustic
- n. North American raccoon
Etymologies
- Short for raccoon. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“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.’””
“That's what I called the coon's dodge of 'barking a tree,'" said Cyrus.”
“I have a problem with a racoon in my barn, so I set up a live trap but the coon is to big for the trap so when it is set off th | Field & Stream”
“I have a problem with a racoon in my barn, so I set up a live trap but the coon is to big for the trap so when it is set off the door just sits on his but so he can back out of it.”
“I guy mentioned them being as big as a main coon housecat, I dont know what this is but the biggest bobcat I ever caught weighed 42 pounds.”
“Starting out with a rolling cage with a live coon is best.”
“One of them shouted out, 'What do you call a coon in a suit?”
“M. Stone & T. Parker used the word coon to provoke, obviously.”
“And again, the use of the word coon was * meant* to provoke a reaction, its what south park does.”
“The pejorative coon would refer to the slum where the community's blacks lived.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coon’.
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EN - xenophobic terms
Alle Menschen werden Brüder - sooner or later? Derogatory terms for anybody different.
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Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
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Name-Calling Humans
Terms of human exceptionalism, exclusivity, and 'types of'.
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Fun with Aphesis
Words created by removing the beginning of a longer or original word or phrase. See also Fun with Apocopes.
phone, bus, drawing room, til, cello, squire, pike, cute, gypsy, mend, vanish, scapegoat and 22 more...
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four-letter words starting with 'c'
clap, claw, cast, cart, cork, cord, care, cram, corn, cusp, cure, curt and 85 more...
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ethnic slurs
Different ways people insult people of other ethnic origins.
kike, nigger, nig, mick, polack, wetback, honky, jap, paki, towelhead, chink, coon and 24 more...
Tweets
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tbtabby And the raccoon lovers and Austrailian cheese makers are pissed about it being turned into a racial slur. Apr 14, 2009
reesetee Originally raccoon Mar 7, 2007