cooncan

noun

1. (uncountable)A card game originally from Mexico, similar to rummy where the object is to form sequences.

   “There was not a dull moment in the dinner for me—nor afterwards when the boys and girls at the piano played the rag-time tunes of their own land, while their elders, inexhaustibly interested, replunged into the discussions of that land's future, till there was talk of coon-can.”

   “Tea Cake and Janie playing checkers; playing coon-can; playing Florida flip on the store porch all afternoon as if nobody else was there.”