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RACCOONING

English, verb, from RACCOON (animal)

“They were raccooning food from her mom’s pantry.” First used in 2006 by Eloha Bouchard and Rachel Stott to describe the act of taking various groceries or supplies from one’s parent’s house without their expressed consent. In the manner of raccoons, who are known to pilfer food from garbage cans and garbage bags at night. Raccooning has a friendlier connotation than “stealing” because children elicit a feeling of tenderness and understanding from parents thus the “theft” of food or other necessities is easily forgiven, In the same way, raccoons are adorable little creatures, making it difficult to resent the poor little scavenger animals for merely acting upon their nature in an attempt at survival.

Eloha Bouchard