How about a ham sandwich for you and your 'coon?.
Advertising” was one problem for frontier women. Another was having to “coon” across a fallen tree that had been felled and limbed to bridge a canyon or gully.
Then the warrior appeared, in a manner that was dead serious as a heart attack wearing a baseball cap. Then came the sidekick, a jet black madman dancing, and almost cooning out of the shadows that cancelled him.
Tris and his gang loved to prowl around at night, “cooning melons,” as Speaker put it in a 1920 interview. By all accounts, young Master Speaker was a handful.
I was crawling across the beam—because I wasn’t able to walk on it. It was really thin. To this day, I would crawl on it—they call it “cooning it.”.
We've been waiting a coon's age for our damn food.