Meaning of zip coon | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A black man.
   US, derogatory, ethnic, obsolete, offensive, slur
2. A minstrel show character stereotypically depicted as an unintelligent black man incapable of assimilating into white American society.
3. Alternative letter-case form of zip coon.
   alt-of
4. A black person who accepts an inferior social status to white people.
   dated

Examples

“Arter a while we got done—but it looked like I had bad luck for in sittin' down agin I lik'd to have sot on Barbry's tom cat, which if I had, I shoulder bin like Kurnel Zip Coon's wife who jump'd into a holler log to mash two young panters to deth, and they scratched her so bad she couldn t set down for two munse.”

“"De gal w'at git ole Brer Jack 'ull git a natchul pacer, sho'. He move mo' one-sideder dan ole Zip Coon, w'ich he rack up de branch all night long wid he nose p'int lak he gwine 'cross."”

“I'm ther old eriginal zip-coon, And that uther coon er sottin' on er rail; And I'm that same old coon What allers war er coon, And that never got er lickin' till yet.”

“There were many names for the coon stock character. He has been referred to as the urban zip coon, dancing dandy, and, most notably, Sambo, the happy slave.”

“Dixon's "Zip Coon" celebrated such a dandy in 1834, and the engraving on the cover of the sheet music portrayed a zip coon in just such a jacket.”

“George Dixon first portrayed the zip coon in 1834.”

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