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coon noun in the UK and US, a black person; in Australia, an Aborigine; in New Zealand, a Pacific Islander; in South Africa, a black-faced minstrel US, 1834 Offensive.- The cop leaned over to see me better. “A coon,” he said. Then he looked at Alice again. “Both coons.” — Chester Himes, If He Hollers Let Him Go, p. 63, 1945
- “Ring the bell before Jackson kills him a coon!” someone boomed in the sudden silence. — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 22, 1947
- I’ll tell that coon over there to turn it off or get his fat little ass kicked. — Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, p. 77, 1962
- Heard these little coons are hung like horses[.] — Dick Gregory, Nigger, p. 10, 1964
- White people always associated watermelons with Negroes, and they sometimes called Negroes “coons” among all the other names[.] — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 15, 1964
- “The coon’s loaded,” he muttered, craning his neck out the window to look behind us. — Terry Southern, Now Dig This, p. 118, November 1968
- Don’t want any of that fucking coon music. — Johnny Speight, It Stands to Reason, p. 93, 1973 “That coon knows his place, Zeke,” Jamie answered weakly. — Donald
- Goines, Swamp Man, p. 16, 1974 Stand up, coon. Name and number. — Scum, 1979
- Come on you fuckin’ coon, move that fuckin’ motor! — Donald Gorgon,
- Cop Killer, p. 2, 1994
- — Harry Orsman, A Dictionary of Modern New Zealand Slang, p. 31, 1999 Non-stop [...] poisonous invective against fucking queers, lezzies–I
- wouldn’t mind fuckin’ one of them though–pakkies, coons and the cuntin’ Common Market. — Stuart Browne, Dangerous Parking, p. 44, 2000
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