Green’s Dictionary of Slang
coon, n. 1. a person, esp. a rustic, a peasant. 2. a sly person, a cunning fellow. 3. a Whig. 4. a highly derog. term for a black person. 5. a Native American. 6. a clown, a fool, the image is of a ‘chocolate coloured coon’. 7. used non-pejoratively of a fellow black person. 8. an Aborigine. 9. a member of a blackface ‘minstrel’ show . 10. a black South African.
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coon, adj. 1. Native-American. 2. sly, cunning; thus coonfully adv., cunningly. 3. pertaining to a black individual or black culture.
coon, v. 1. to crawl stealthily (like a racoon). 2. to pilfer, esp. fruit or other objects of little value.
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coonery
(n.)
stupidity, esp. as enacted by black people. under coon, n.
coonish
(adj.)
1. stupid. 2. angry, aggressive. under coon, n.
coonmobile
(n.)
a flashy automobile, supposedly preferred by African-American owners . under coon, n.
coon-assed
(adj.)
see separate entry. under coon, n.
coon bottom
(n.)
within a larger urban area, that part recognized as home to the black community. under coon, n.
coon chaser
(n.)
a white man who pursues/has sex with black women. under coon, n.
coon corner
(n.)
a segregated area of an ostensibly open-to-all restaurant. under coon, n.
coon dick
(n.)
an illicitly distilled spirit, compounded of ‘grapefruit juice, cornmeal mash, beef bones and a few mo’ things’ (Zora Neale Hurston, Mules & Men, 1935). under coon, n.
coonhead
(n.)
see sense 5 above. under coon, n.
coon juice
(n.)
illicitly distilled whisky. under coon, n.
coon-lover
(n.)
a derog. term, as used by racists, for those who are seen as insufficiently hostile to blacks. under coon, n.
coon’s age
(n.)
a very long time; often as in a coon’s age
. under coon, n.
coonshine
(n.)
an all-night party. under coon, n.
coon song
(n.)
a song performed in a minstrel show. under coon, n.
coonskin
(n.)
see separate entry. under coon, n.
Coontown
(n.)
a derog. term for the black section of a town or city. under coon, n.
coon out
(v.)
to leave surreptitiously. under coon, v.
coon-ass, n. 1. a Cajun (a person of French descent in Louisiana). 2. attrib. use of sense 1.
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coon-ass fruit juice
(n.)
coffee. under coon-ass, n.
coon-assed, adj. a general term of abuse.
cooney/coonful, adj. see
coon adj.
coonie, n. a small stone suitable for a missile.
coonskin, n. a $1 bill; also attrib.
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coony, adj. see coon adj.
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