Meanings
- uncountablecard gamesA card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.
1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 1101 more example
There was not a dull moment in the dinner for me—nor afterwards when the boys and girls at the piano played the rag-time tunes of their own land, while their elders, inexhaustibly interested, replunged into the discussions of that land's future, till there was talk of coon-can.
1913, Rudyard Kipling, “The Edge of the Evening”, in A Diversity of Creatures, London: Macmillan and Co., […], published 1917, →OCLC, page 282Synonyms: conquian
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
Origin
- Spanishcon
- Englishcooncan
From Spanish con quién (“with whom?”).
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cooncan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cooncan
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