coonskin cap

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   a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back

   Synonymscoonskin

   Broadercap

Questions about coonskin cap

What does coonskin cap mean?

coonskin cap means "a raccoon cap with the tail hanging down the back".

What is another word for coonskin cap?

Close synonyms include coonskin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coonskin cap a common word?

coonskin cap is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.