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coon verb- to steal something; someone to cheat US
- [S]ome of us boys would slip out down the road, or across the pastures, and go “cooning” watermelons. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 15, 1964
- — Clarence Major, Dictionary of Afro-American Slang, p. 40, 1970
- Charlie broke a window in the principle’s office one night, cooned in, stumbled through the darkness, grabbed the telephone, gave it a smiling vicious tug, and ripped it from the wall. — Joe Eszterhas, Charlie Simpson’s Apocalypse, p. 65, 1973
- Monkey said, “Find a stump to fit your rump / And I’ll coon you till your asshhole jump.” — Dennis Wepman et al., The Life, p. 33, 1976
- to bet US
- — Marcus Hanna Boulware, Jive and Slang of Students in Negro Colleges, 1947
- Say, “Why don’t you get you a deck of cards where I can coon you some?” — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 175, 1962
- on the railways, to travel over the tops of goods wagons while a train is moving US
- — J. Herbert Lund, Herb’s Hot Box of Railroad Slang, p. 56, 1975
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