dune coon

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dune coon (plural dune coons)

1. (slang, offensive, derogatory, ethnic slur) Someone of Middle Eastern or North African descent.
   • (Can we date this quote?), Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Artistic Directors of the Future...Talks Brexit, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 82:

     You're a...damn dune coon. B: Mhm. A: Not convincing is it? B: You're not great at the sentences part to be honest. A: Hah, I know, I know... B: You can definitely hate better than that. A: Heart's not really in it.

   • 2009 01, Pat Mulligan, Three Comedies for the Screen, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 354:

     Now, get lost you dune coon. Harvard doesn't realize that he's still on mic. His comments are heard by the viewing audience. CAMERA ON AC H MAD ACHMAD Dune coon? Hey, I'm also half mick. As you've heard, this is an unprecedented case of […]

   • 2011 March 2, Christy Cauley, Writers on the Storm, Christy Cauley, →ISBN, page 204:

     “My story is about the first time I ever heard the expression 'dune coon,' ” she said. Cornelia was relieved that Mrs. Hakim was not going to read about what she had done, but she was also confused. She had never heard that expression […]

   • 2015 April 7, Dan Jenkins, LIFE ITS OWN SELF, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     More dinosaurs died in Arabia than anywhere else.” “Dune Coons?” “Sand niggers,” Big Ed said. “Your A-rabs cause the glut and they cause the gasoline lines. Whatever suits their ass. I was tryin' to deal with a Dune Coon the other day.

   • 2005 November 23, Elrod Stanton, Resurrection and Reclamation, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 141:

     No Dune Coon gonna loo/e cross—eyed at my Rachel. He did more than that the first night we went out. Ended up back at his place. That was the twentieth ofJuly. Took less than three weeks to get him to the JP. I was desperate.

   • 2015 November 15, John Pettegrew, Light It Up: The Marine Eye for Battle in the War for Iraq, JHU Press, →ISBN:

     ... and within that core community, as Bee Burgers suggests, lies a most fundamental binary: human beings whose life and autonomy are presumptively respected and those “dune coon muslim terrorists” who should be killed.49 With terrorist […]