Usually means: Raccoon, or offensive term for Black.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word coon:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. coon: Merriam-Webster
  2. coon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. coon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. coon: Vocabulary.com
  6. coon: Wordnik
  7. coon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Coon, 'coon, coon: Wiktionary
  9. coon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. coon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. coon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. coon: Dictionary.com
  13. coon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Coon (disambiguation), Coon (surname), Coon, The Coon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Coon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. coon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. coon: Rhymezone
  18. Coon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. COON: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. coon: FreeDictionary.org
  21. coon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. coon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. coon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coon: Cook's Thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coon (disambiguation), coon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Coon (disambiguation), coon: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. coon: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coon (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. coon, coon, coon: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. coon: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  5. The Coon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See cooning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
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.

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