coon

Less common meanings

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   verboffensive

   Of a Black person, to act like an old, foolish stereotype to entertain people, especially white people.

   UsageMost often seen as cooning, used to criticize performers.

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   nounderogatoryethnicoffensiveslurdialectalSouthern UScountable

   A rude, offensive word for a Cajun, a person from south Louisiana whose family came from French Acadia.

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   noundatedUScountable

   A man who is clever and a little tricky.

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   stealverbdatedSouthern UStransitive

   To steal something.

   The kids liked to coon melons from the farm down the road.

   Tris and his gang loved to prowl around at night, “cooning melons,” as Speaker put it in a 1920 interview. By all accounts, young Master Speaker was a handful.

   2006, Timothy M. Gay, Tris Speaker: The Rough-and-Tumble Life of a Baseball LegendHere, cooning means stealing.

   Similarsteal, swipe, pinch

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   nouncolloquialSouth Africa

   A dancer in one of the groups in bright costumes that perform in Cape Town at New Year.
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    verbdialectalSouthern US

    To crawl along something narrow, like a log or ledge, often holding it between your legs.

    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.

    a. 1917, Roger Martin, “The Parson Goes A-Fishing”Here, cooning means crawling along something narrow, like a ledge.
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    verbdialectalGeorgia

    To catch big fish by reaching into holes under the water with your hands.