cooncan

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English

Etymology

From Spanish con quién (with whom?).

Noun

cooncan (uncountable)

  1. (card games) A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.
    • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Amistad, published 2013, page 110:
      Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.

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