Coon is an extremely offensive slur for a Black person. It’s rooted in the racist history of Blackface and comes from a shortening of raccoon. Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary …

Coon Chicken Inn, a former American restaurant chain whose trademarks and entrances were designed to look like a smiling blackface caricature of an African-American porter

There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun coon, one of which is considered derogatory. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

/ kuːn / uk / kuːn / an extremely offensive word for a Black person (Definition of coon from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Dec 6, 2025 · coon (third-person singular simple present coons, present participle cooning, simple past and past participle cooned) (Southern US, colloquial) To hunt raccoons.

2 senses: 1. informal → short for raccoon 2. offensive, slang a Black person or a native Australian.... Click for more definitions.

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The meaning of COON is raccoon.

Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a black person.

Britannica Dictionary definition of COON [count] US, informal : raccoon in a coon's age — see 1 age