Title: coon - Wiktionary
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Content: 2006, A. Khaulid, The Great Book of Fire, Damon Hunter, →ISBN, page 142: Then the warrior appeared, in a manner that was dead serious as a heart attack wearing a baseball cap. Then came the sidekick, a jet black madman dancing, and almost cooning out of the shadows that cancelled him. ( Southern US, colloquial, dated) To steal . quotations ▼
1940, John W. “Jack” Ganzhorn, I’ve Killed Men, Robert Hale Limited, page 58: Cooning water-melons [ sic.] was a common custom, and young people would go out at night on such parties. To prevent any raids on our melon patch Grandfather set a trap alarm—which brought disaster. 1948, John Donald Kingsley, The Antioch Review, volume VIII: He kept on buying and selling horses, he said, sometimes paying for them in bogus, and sometimes cooning them.