Coon

Coon

Coon may refer to:

  • Coon, a racial slur used in the United States to refer to black people
  • Coon, an abbreviation for fur from raccoons and racoon dogs
  • Coön (Κόων, Κόωνος), a Trojan warrior who fought in the Trojan War
  • Coon cheese, is the trademark of a cheddar cheese produced by the Dairy Farmers company in Australia
  • Coon Carnival, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa
  • "The Coon", an episode of US animated series South Park

Persons with the surname Coon

  • Carleton Coon, co-founder of and drummer for the Coon-Sanders Original Nighthawk Orchestra
  • Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981), American physical anthropologist
  • Caroline Coon (born 1945), artist and founder of UK agency Release
  • Edward William Coon, inventor of the maturation process for Coon cheese
  • Gaylord P. Coon, former Chief of Psychiatry at Harvard University
  • Gene L. Coon (1924–1973) , American screenwriter and television producer
  • Jabez Coon (1869–1935), Australian politician
  • Jeremy Coon, executive producer and editor on Napoleon Dynamite
  • S. Park Coon, American politician and soldier

See also


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  • Coon — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Carleton S. Coon (1904–1981), US amerikanischer Anthropologe Gene L. Coon (1924–1973), US amerikanischer Drehbuchautor und Fernsehproduzent Jabez Coon (1869–1935), australischer Politiker Jeremy Coon, US… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • coon|y — «KOO nee», adjective, coon|i|er, coon|i|est. Slang. wary and clever; shrewd. ╂[< coon + y1] …   Useful english dictionary

  • coon — (n.) short for RACCOON (Cf. raccoon), 1742, American English. It was the nickname of Whig Party members in U.S. c.1848 60, as the raccoon was the party s symbol, and it also had associations with frontiersmen (who stereotypically wore raccoon… …   Etymology dictionary

  • Coon — (k[=oo]n), n. (Zo[ o]l.) A raccoon. See {Raccoon}. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • coon — [ kun ] noun count 1. ) INFORMAL a RACCOON 2. ) OFFENSIVE an offensive word for a black person in a coon s age INFORMAL in a very long time …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • Coon — COON, ónis, Græc. Κόων, ωνος, (⇒ Tab. XXXI.) Antenors ältester Sohn, ein gar tapferer Soldat, verwundete den Agamemnon selbst durch die Hand, als er dessen Bruder, Iphidamas, erleget hatte. Indem er aber diesen noch darzu bey dem einen Beine… …   Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon

  • COON — primogenitus filiorum Antenoris, qui cum Iphidamantis fratris mortem, ab Agamemnone illatam, vindicare vellet, mediam eius manum subter cubitum lauceâ trausfixit, atque ita ab eo interfectus est. Homer. Iliad …   Hofmann J. Lexicon universale

  • coon — [ku:n] n informal [Date: 1700 1800; Origin: raccoon] 1.) AmE a ↑raccoon 2.) taboo a very offensive word for a black person. Do not use this word …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • coon — ► NOUN 1) N. Amer. short for RACCOON(Cf. ↑raccoon). 2) informal, offensive a black person. [ORIGIN: slang use of sense 1, from an earlier sense ‘(sly) fellow’.] …   English terms dictionary

  • coon — ☆ coon [ko͞on ] n. 1. short for RACCOON 2. Slang a black person: a term of contempt or derision …   English World dictionary

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