Coon
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Coon can refer to:
- an abbreviation for raccoon
- the Maine Coon, a breed of domestic 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
- 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,
- 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