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Coon may refer to:

Fauna

Butterflies

• Coon, common name of the butterfly Astictopterus jama
• 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, a breed of domestic cat
• Coon, a diminutive of raccoon

People

• Coon (surname)
• Coön (Template:Lang-grc-gre, Κόωνος), a Trojan warrior who during the Trojan War wounded Agamemnon

Arts, entertainment, and media

Television

• "Coon 2: Hindsight", a 2010 episode of American animated series South Park
• "The Coon", a 2009 episode of American animated series South Park

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Coon Can or Conquian, a card game

Racially biased usage

• Coon, a racial slur, used pejoratively to refer to a dark-skinned person of African, Australian Aboriginal, or Pacific island heritage, in usage mainly from the late 19th century until the 1970s. Also used to describe politically conservative black Americans, particularly high-profile outspoken activists
• Coon Carnival, the original name for the Kaapse Klopse, a yearly minstrel festival in Cape Town, South Africa
• 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
• Coon hunting, a racist expression referring to seeking to recapture escaped slaves or searching for African-Americans to victimise or assault
• Coon song, a genre of music that presented a stereotyped image of black people
• Coonass or Coon-ass, an epithet used in reference to a person of Cajun ethnicity

Other uses

• Coon cheese, a cheddar cheese produced by the National Foods company in Australia, trademarked COON
• Coon hunting, a shortened form of the sport of raccoon hunting

See also

• Coons (disambiguation)
• Coone (born 1983), hard style and jumpstyle musician
• Coonhound, a type of scent hound
• Koon (disambiguation)

• Disambiguation pages
• Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists