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- raccoon 1a
variants
or less commonly racoon
plural raccoon or raccoons also racoon or racoons
1
a
: a small nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) of North America that is chiefly gray, has a black mask and bushy ringed tail, lives chiefly in trees, and has a varied diet including small animals, fruits, and nuts
b
: the pelt of this animal
2
: any of several animals resembling or related to the raccoon
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And the raccoon heroics don’t stop there.
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Ronnie Li, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Brown and other demonstrators pulled a cart filled with 30 inflatable costumes and began passing them out to protesters, turning the gathering into a kind of night circus as a raccoon, polar bear and axolotl bounded toward the ICE building.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025
Like a faulty fire hydrant, or a vacuum cleaner whizzing up and down with the uncontrollable hysteria of a feral raccoon, our directive was to suck up as many clicks as possible through every angle imaginable.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
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Ronnie Li, USA Today, 16 Oct. 2025
Animals that typically carry rabies are bats, raccoons, skunks, and foxes.
—Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Brown and other demonstrators pulled a cart filled with 30 inflatable costumes and began passing them out to protesters, turning the gathering into a kind of night circus as a raccoon, polar bear and axolotl bounded toward the ICE building.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC news, 11 Oct. 2025
Like a faulty fire hydrant, or a vacuum cleaner whizzing up and down with the uncontrollable hysteria of a feral raccoon, our directive was to suck up as many clicks as possible through every angle imaginable.
—Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for raccoon
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“Raccoon.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/raccoon. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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