COON

'Coon' can refer to:

★ an abbreviation for raccoon

★ the Maine Coon, a breed of domestic american cat

★ an ethnic slur used in American, British and Australian English for people of African or aboriginal Australian descent

★ a brand of cheese in Australia

★ Coon Carnival, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa

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Places

People

Places

★ Coon Creek Township, Minnesota in the USA,

★ Coon Rapids, Iowa in the USA,

★ Coon Rapids, Minnesota in the USA,

★ Coon Valley, Wisconsin in the USA,

★ Coon, village in north-east Kilkenny (Ireland) home to St Martin's hurling club,

People

★ Carleton Stevens Coon, an American physical anthropologist

★ Edward William Coon invented a technique for fast maturation of cheese

★ Gene Coon was an American screenwriter and television producer

★ Jeremy Coon, credited as a producer of Napoleon Dynamite

★ Zip Coon, a character created by blackface performer George Washington Dixon, giving rise to the eponymous ethnic slur