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Coon's age

noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A very long time. US, colloquial, idiomatic, uncountable, usually

    "Jarn hasn't seen Schnie in a coon's age."

Etymology

An Americanism recorded in 1843 and probably related to the old English expression in a crow's age meaning the same. Coon is a colloquialism for the North American raccoon.

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