coon dick

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coon dick

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From coon + dick. For the alcohol, the term was coined and used during the prohibition era of the 1930s, referring to how African Americans illegally transported it in the crotch of their pants.

noun coondick · coon-dick

  1. offensive, uncountable Bootleg moonshine or other illegal alcohol. I was beginning to think he'd run out of Fuss-X and done filled up instead of home-brewed coon dick, which meant any time now he'd be fighting whatever come near, thinking he was crawling with monkies.
  2. uncountable The penis bone of a raccoon, typically used as a toothpick or good luck charm. "Oh, you want to see this," says the boy. “It's a coon dick.” A tiny, leathery hit of tissue on a length of blue yarn is swung in Joel's face.
  3. uncountable Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see coon, dick. Here she was thinking she had a strapping black Mandingo and she ended up with an Uncle Tom, Ain't no way her pussy was gon' get wet for coon dick.

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@misc{coon_dick_2026,
  title = {coon dick},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coon%20dick},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}