COONS

"COONS" is a plural of: coon.

Date "COONS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1900. (references)

Domain	Definition
Slang	Noun. Source: Racoon eyes. Definition: A tan line snowboarders from wearing face protection while snowboarding. Context: They use the phrase when they want to mock someone who has a facial tan line . Social Source: Bend Oregon snowboarders. Source: Compiled by The University of Oregon. (additional references)
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Synonym: COONS

Synonym: Raccoons. (additional references)

Crosswords: COONS

Specialty definitions using "COONS": WASHINGTON. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's nicer than when he called them coons. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear)
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Domain	Title
Books	From Cartoon Coons to The Boondocks: Black Images in Comics (reference) Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks (reference) (more book examples)
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	Treeing coons. Credit: Library of Congress.		One of the young bo-hoys in exstacies before the coons of 1844. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Oliver Scott's Refined Negro Minstrels a happy lot of funny coons in myriad acts entrancing, new jokes and gags by black buffoons, the best of songs and dancing. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

"COONS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 61.54% of the time. "COONS" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (plural)	61.54%	8	124,375
Noun (proper)	38.46%	5	157,705
Total	100.00%	13	N/A

The following table summarizes the usage of "COONS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Coons	Last name	3,000	4,271
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "COONS": coonskin, coonskins. (additional references)
	Words ending with "COONS": barracoons, cocoons, puccoons, raccoons, racoons, tycoons. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "COONS" (pronounced kuw"nz)
4	k uw" n z	cocoons, raccoons, tycoons.
3	-uw" n z	afternoons, baboons, balloons, cartoons, croons, dunes, goons, harpoons, lagoons, loons, monsoons, moons, noons, platoons, pontoons, prunes, saloons, spoons, tunes, typhoons.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-n-o-o-s"
	-1 letter: cons, coon, coos, soon.
	-2 letters: con, coo, cos, noo, nos, ons, son.
	-3 letters: no, on, os, so.
	Words containing the letters "c-n-o-o-s"
	+1 letter: codons, cogons, colons, condos, congos, consol, contos, croons, nostoc.
	+2 letters: broncos, cocoons, cojoins, cojones, colones, colonus, commons, condoes, condoms, condors, congoes, congous, conoids, console, consols, consort, convoys, cordons, coronas, cottons, coupons, crotons, honchos, nocuous, noncoms, nostocs, opsonic, ovonics, pocosin, ponchos, racoons, schnook, secondo, soupcon, tycoons.
	+3 letters: bonnocks, bronchos, canorous, cardoons, cartoons, chinooks, choosing, chorions, chronons, coconuts, cofounds, cohesion, coitions, colognes, colonels, colonics, colonies, colonise, colonist, concocts, concords, condoles, condones, condores, conenose, conforms, conioses, coniosis, conjoins, connotes, consoled, consoler, consoles, consomme, consorts, contorts, contours, controls, convokes, cookings, coolants, coolness, cooncans, coonskin, coonties, corantos, corncobs, corneous, cornrows, cornutos, coronals, coronels, coroners, coronets, crooners, croutons, dornocks, eclosion, ecotones, hencoops, isochron, isogonic, isonomic, isotonic, monocles, monocots, occasion, octagons, octanols, omicrons, orcinols, ostracon, outscorn, pocosins, popcorns, puccoons, raccoons, rockoons, schnooks, schooner, scooping, scooting, scorpion, soochong, souchong, soupcons, stolonic, torchons, volcanos.
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