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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
coon .
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Examples
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When we came back to the Mr. Champ, Jimbo and Taylor "cooned" some oysters off a bar and then culled and shucked them on the back deck, while I filleted the only redfish under 10 pounds that we had caught and opened some Pouilly Fuissé.
Flyfishing for Redfish on the Flats from Texas to Florida 2005
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In space-plus, co-cooned in the responsive and caring confines of theTeacher, he was free from the emotional roar and babble of thousands of sapient beings.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Co-cooned in an early fog, he boarded the dory with Tavish and his brother, and on the way out to Gull's anchorage, set hands to a pair of oars for the first time in his life.
Stormwarden Wurts, Janny 1989
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I was on the team; we traveled to neighboring towns such as Howell and Charlotte, and wherever I showed my face, the audiences in the gymnasiums "niggered" and "cooned" me to death.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 1964
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He must a 'had a kunnoo to fasten it whar he did, else cooned it on the top o' the limb.
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