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Definition of coon in English: coonnoun kuːnkun 1North American short for raccoon Example sentencesExamples - The boys and the dogs are at the tree where the ghost coon supposedly ran up, but the coon is nowhere in sight.
- According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
- He hunts for coons almost every night and hangs all the skins on the smokehouse for all the passers-by to see.
- Soon enough, the coon is back in the bottoms and the dogs are right behind him.
- Our formative years were mostly spent in the woods hunting squirrels, coons, rabbits and the occasional deer.
- They bet him two dollars that his hounds cannot catch a coon that has been running around in their part of the country for years.
- When the two coons are finally killed, Papa asks where the third coon went.
- The dogs tree their first coon and everyone is excited, especially Grandpa.
- Billy knows this is not true, because his dogs have only treed three coons in one night.
- But the coons sometimes left him with a need of medical attention.
- They are on the trail of what Billy thinks is a coon, but actually turns out to be a mountain lion.
- He says he cannot leave the tree or else the coon will get out.
- I caught myself noting the condition of the unfortunate animals that had not made it across the road and idly thought, ‘The coons are big this year.’
- They looked up in a tree and saw a bobcat was after a coon.
- On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
- One guy was dumb enough to try to catch a coon and it almost took his hand off.
- Apparently, one of the other teams caught three coons just before quitting because of the storm.
- He was the top bird and raccoon hunting dog in the small town of Heron, and the whole state of Montana was proud of him for holding the record for most coons caught in an hour.
- We circle around him to make sure he will be alright like vultures around a dead coon.
- It is ready the day after the coons have stripped all the ears off the stalk.
2offensive, informal A black person. 〈冒犯〉黑鬼
Phrasesdated, informal For a very long time. 〈北美，非正式，旧〉很长一段时间；很久 I haven't seen you in a coon's age! Example sentencesExamples - I haven't seen her in a coon's age!
- Proving only that he hasn't talked to an actual software developer in a coon's age, Larry Ellison predicts that Linux is going to eventually eat Microsoft for lunch.
- I haven't been here in a coon's age.
Definition of coon in US English: coonnounkunko͞on 1North American short for raccoon Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- He was the top bird and raccoon hunting dog in the small town of Heron, and the whole state of Montana was proud of him for holding the record for most coons caught in an hour.
- They are on the trail of what Billy thinks is a coon, but actually turns out to be a mountain lion.
- When the two coons are finally killed, Papa asks where the third coon went.
- Billy knows this is not true, because his dogs have only treed three coons in one night.
- Soon enough, the coon is back in the bottoms and the dogs are right behind him.
- According to Lawrence Will, ‘floods and freezes, wild hogs and coons, muck fires, gnats and mosquitoes, slow transportation and greedy New York buyers, all these discouraged many.’
- They bet him two dollars that his hounds cannot catch a coon that has been running around in their part of the country for years.
- He hunts for coons almost every night and hangs all the skins on the smokehouse for all the passers-by to see.
- It is ready the day after the coons have stripped all the ears off the stalk.
- One guy was dumb enough to try to catch a coon and it almost took his hand off.
- On your walk you will probably see mallards, grebes, canvasbacks and coons and perhaps snapping turtles and white pelicans.
- Apparently, one of the other teams caught three coons just before quitting because of the storm.
- The boys and the dogs are at the tree where the ghost coon supposedly ran up, but the coon is nowhere in sight.
- He says he cannot leave the tree or else the coon will get out.
- Our formative years were mostly spent in the woods hunting squirrels, coons, rabbits and the occasional deer.
- I caught myself noting the condition of the unfortunate animals that had not made it across the road and idly thought, ‘The coons are big this year.’
- We circle around him to make sure he will be alright like vultures around a dead coon.
- But the coons sometimes left him with a need of medical attention.
2offensive, informal A black person. 〈冒犯〉黑鬼
Phrasesdated, informal A long time. 〈北美，非正式，旧〉很长一段时间；很久 I haven't seen you in a coon's age! Example sentencesExamples - I haven't been here in a coon's age.
- I haven't seen her in a coon's age!
- Proving only that he hasn't talked to an actual software developer in a coon's age, Larry Ellison predicts that Linux is going to eventually eat Microsoft for lunch.
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