boon coon
/ˈbuːn kuːn/(also boon koon) US slang (in African-American usage)
noun
A close friend.
- Markedly less common than ace boon coon in later use..
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in The Chicago Defender. Origin uncertain; perhaps from boon + coon, perhaps influenced by boon companion and perhaps also by boo koo, variant of bookoo beaucoup adjective adverb.
- prickly cedar
- prickly comfrey
- prickly fern
- prickly glasswort
- prickly grass
- prickly heat
- prickly lettuce
- prickly melon
- prickly Moses
- prickly palm
- prickly parsnip
- prickly pear
- prickly pole
- prickly poppy
- prickly rhubarb
- prickly saltwort
- prickly sculpin
- prickly shield fern
- prickly tang
- prickly yellow
- prick-ma-dainty
- prick-madam
- prick-mark
- prick-me-dainty
- prickpear