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coon⋅can

[koon-kan]
–noun Cards.
a variety of rummy for two players.

Origin:
1885–90, Americanism; popular alter. of conquian
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coon·can   (kōōn'kān')   
n.  A card game for 2 players using 40 cards that is an early version of rummy.

[Alteration of American Spanish conquián, probably from Spanish con quién, with whom? : con, with (from Latin cum; see kom in Indo-European roots) + quien, whom (from Latin quem, accusative of quis, who; see kwo- in Indo-European roots).]
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