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▸ noun: (informal, chiefly Southern US) A raccoon.
▸ noun: (informal, South Africa) A member of a colorfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.
▸ noun: (Southern US, ethnic slur) A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.
▸ noun: (US, dated) A sly fellow.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ verb: (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.
▸ verb: (climbing) To traverse by crawling, as a ledge.
▸ verb: (Southern US, colloquial) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.
▸ verb: (Georgia, colloquial) To fish by noodling, by feeling for large fish in underwater holes.
▸ verb: (African-American Vernacular, of an African-American) To play the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.
▸ verb: (Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal.
▸ noun: A surname.
Similar:
nigra,
spade,
ringtail,
common raccoon,
common racoon,
procyon lotor,
raccoon,
rabbit,
coonhound,
racoon,
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