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Coon may refer to:

Fauna

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

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
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

Coon cheese, an Australian brand of cheese
Coon hunting, a shortened form of the sport of raccoon hunting
Coon and Goon, an Australian wine and cheese night, and right of passage for mediocre entertaining. It usually involves copious amounts of terrible wine, mixed with ungodly amounts of cheese.