coon
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
- 2.
(Southern US, informal)(informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
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.
How about a glen bong for you and your 'coon?
- 3.
(derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slang, slur)(slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black race traitor.
Đồng nghĩa: Oreo, Uncle Tom
- 4.
(South Africa, informal)A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
- 5.
(Southern US, ethnic, slur)(Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
- 6.
(US, dated)A sly fellow.
- 7.
(African-American Vernacular) A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
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verb- 1.
(Southern US, colloquial)To hunt raccoons.
- 2.
(climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
- 3.
(Southern US, colloquial)To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
There is a little ledge low on the face of the cliff, and by this with careful “cooning” one may reach a recession in the rock which makes a lovely arm chair.
- 4.
(Georgia, colloquial)To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
- 5.
(African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
From the classic toasts to the dirty dozens to the early blues⁵⁰ and now to gangsta rap lyrics—why not consider it all just a bunch of niggers cooning for the white man’s delight and dollars?
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(Southern US, colloquial, dated)To steal.
Cooning water-melons [sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster.
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raccoon.