Coon-dick

Alternative forms

• coondick

Origin

From coon + dick. Coined and used during the prohibition era of the 1930s, referring to how African American migrants illegally transported it in the crotch of their pants.

Full definition of coon-dick

Verb

1. Bootleg moonshine or other illegal alcohol.
• 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Harper Perennial (2000), page 176:’Tain’t a thing wrong that a quart of coon-dick wouldn’t cure. You haven’t been gettin’ yo’ right likker lately, eh?”