Coon may refer to:

Fauna

Butterflies

* Coon, common name of the butterfly ''

Astictopterus jama ''Astictopterus jama'', the forest hopper or coon, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found in Southeast Asia. The larvae feed on ''Miscanthus sinensis ''Miscanthus sinensis'', the eulalia or Chinese silver grass, is ...

'' * Coon, species group of the butterfly genus ''Atrophaneura'', now genus ''Losaria'' * Coon, common name of the butterfly '' Psolos fuligo''

Mammals

* Coon, an alternative name for

Maine Coon The Maine Coon is a large domesticated cat breed. It is one of the oldest natural breeds in North America. The breed originated in the U.S. state of Maine, where it is the official state cat. The breed was popular in cat shows in the late 19t ...

, a breed of domestic cat * Coon, a diminutive of

raccoon The raccoon ( or , ''Procyon lotor''), sometimes called the common raccoon to distinguish it from other species, is a mammal native to North America. It is the largest of the procyonid family, having a body length of , and a body weight of ...

People

* Coon (surname) *

Coön In Greek mythology, Coön (Ancient Greek: Κόων, gen. Κόωνος), also known as Cynon (Κύνων), was the eldest son of Antenor and Theano. Like most of his brothers, he fought and fell in the Trojan War. Family Coön was the brother o ...

( grc-gre, Κόων, links=no, ), a Trojan warrior who during the Trojan War wounded Agamemnon

Arts and entertainment

* " Coon 2: Hindsight", a 2010 episode of American animated series ''South Park'' * "

The Coon "The Coon" is the second episode of the thirteenth season of the American animated television series ''South Park''. The 183rd episode of the series, it originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on March 18, 2009. In the episode, ...

", a 2009 episode of American animated series ''South Park'' *

Coon Can Conquian, Coon Can or Colonel (the two-handed version) is a rummy-style card game. David Parlett describes it as an ancestor to all modern rummy games, and a kind of proto- gin rummy. Before the appearance of gin rummy, it was described as "an exc ...

or Conquian, a card game

Slang

* Coon, a

racial slur The following is a list of ethnic slurs or ethnophaulisms or ethnic epithets that are, or have been, used as insinuations or allegations about members of a given ethnicity or racial group or to refer to them in a derogatory, pejorative, or oth ...

, used pejoratively to refer to a dark-skinned person of African, Australian First Nations, or Pacific island heritage. * Coon Carnival, the original name for the

Kaapse Klopse The Kaapse Klopse (or simply Klopse), formerly known as the Coon Carnival and officially called Cape Town Minstrel Carnival, is a Cape coloured minstrel festival that takes place annually on 2 January in Cape Town, South Africa. It is also refe ...

, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa *

Coon Chicken Inn Coon Chicken Inn was an American chain of three restaurants that was founded by Maxon Lester Graham and Adelaide Burt in 1925, which prospered until the late 1950s. The restaurant's name contained the word ''Coon'', considered a racial slur, a ...

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

Coon song Coon songs were a genre of music that presented a stereotype of black people. They were popular in the United States and Australia from around 1880 to 1920, though the earliest such songs date from minstrel shows as far back as 1848, when they we ...

, a genre of music that presented a stereotyped image of black people *

Coonass ''Coonass'', or ''Coon-ass'', is a derogatory term for a person of Cajun ethnicity. It's believed to originate from the French word "conasse" meaning a fool. Usage Socioeconomic factors appear to influence how Cajuns are likely to view the term: ...

or Coon-ass, an epithet used in reference to a person of Cajun ethnicity

Other uses

Coon cheese Cheer (stylised as CHEER), formerly marketed as Coon, is the Australian trademark of a cheddar cheese (known as "tasty" in Australia) produced by the Warrnambool Cheese and Butter company, which is majority-owned by Canadian dairy company Sap ...

, an Australian brand of cheese *

Coon hunting Coon hunting is the practice of hunting raccoons, most often for their meat and fur. It is almost always done with specially bred dogs called coonhounds, of which there are six breeds, and is most commonly associated with rural life in the Sou ...

, a shortened form of the sport of raccoon hunting