cooncan

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In the "C" section, meanwhile, the triumvirate "cancan / Cancun / cooncan" appears as one entry.

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  • In the "C" section, meanwhile, the triumvirate "cancan / Cancun / cooncan" appears as one entry. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • There, he found that cooncan is a card game played around the world (probably also in Cancun), that the derivation of the city named Cancun is uncertain but has something to do with snakes, and that a Google search of "cancan + no panties" returns no results. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • He was an expert at cooncan, and Pangingi fascinated him; then they taught him Mexican monte, and one worthless individual stole an ace out of the deck, whereupon all hands had a joyous hack at Cappy, who, when informed privately by his friend, Sam Daniels, foreman of the outfit, that he was in bad company and being skinned alive, went uptown and bought some specially constructed dice, which he introduced brazenly into a crap game, thereby more than catching even. —  Cappy Ricks Retires
 

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  1. Alteration of American Spanish conquián, probably from Spanish con quién, with whom? : con, with (from Latin cum; see kom in Indo-European roots) + quien, whom (from Latin quem, accusative of quis, who; see kwo- in Indo-European roots).
 

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