Coons

Word COONS
Character 5
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /kuːnz/

Definitions and meanings of "Coons"

What do we mean by coons?

(racial slur) A black person.

A raccoon.

A member of a colourfully dressed dance troupe in Cape Town during New Year celebrations.

A coonass; a white Acadian French person who lives in the swamps.

A sly fellow.

A black person who "plays the coon"; that is, who plays the dated stereotype of a black fool for an audience, particularly including Caucasians.

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The word "coons" in example sentences

Yes | No | Report from tennesseedeerhunter wrote 7 weeks 6 days ago the best way to hunt coons is with dogs ❋ Unknown (2009)

Also try to catch and release coons from a live trap. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They labeled themselves "coons" -- a pejorative for black Americans -- and used the term with pride. ❋ Unknown (2007)

At merciful intervals a waiter would roar or squeak a song -- songs full of "Mr. Johnsons" and "babes" and "coons" -- historical word guaranties of the genuineness of African melodies composed by red waistcoated young gentlemen, natives of the cotton fields and rice swamps of West Twenty-eighth Street. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

Kansas is overrun with 'coons 'cause almost nobody traps or hunts them. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Speech, for example, was in many cases reduced to largely-unintelligible grunts about 'coons'. ❋ Dungeekin (2009)

The novel's other two main characters are their English landlady, Queenie, and Bernard, Queenie's bigoted husband, who arrives back from wartime service to find "coons" renting rooms in his house. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Barbour was embarrassed by an aide's nasty remarks about "coons" at campaign rallies. ❋ Unknown (2010)

With all due respect, where were you when Kabaka appeared at least 5 times on Willie's show and trashed me and other Black people, calling us, among other things, "coons"? ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2006)

This isn't the best source -- but it is the best one I could find quickly on the internet -- to define how whites have stereotyped African Americans as "coons" or "Sambo figures". ❋ Nathaniel Livingston (2005)

But the racial sensitivity at Barbour headquarters was suggested by an exchange between the candidate and an aide who complained that there would be ''coons'' at a campaign stop at the state fair. ❋ Unknown (2003)

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