coon
/kuːn
/noun
1North American short for raccoon.Our formative years were mostly spent in the woods hunting squirrels, coons, rabbits and the occasional deer....
- The dogs tree their first coon and everyone is excited, especially Grandpa.
- They looked up in a tree and saw a bobcat was after a coon.
2 informal, offensive A black person.
Slang use of sense 1, from an earlier sense ‘(sly) fellow’
Phrases
for (or in) a coon's age