coon

coon
1. noun /kun/
a) A raccoon.

1963 North, Sterling Rascal, Avon Books (softcover), p 100:

b) A black person.

,"How about a glen bong for you and your coon?"

2. verb /kun/
a) To hunt racoons.

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.

b) To crawl while straddling, especially in crossing a creek.

2 oclock we float up to Duvalls landing—high bluff, store house, and a few dwelling houses. Here the fleet stops. Now for a canter through the woods, cooning logs, and waiding sloughs. Slosh across a small prairie.


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