"coon's age" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "An Americanism recorded in 1843 and probably related to the old English expression in a crow's age meaning the same. Coon is a colloquialism for the North American raccoon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coon's ages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "coon's age (usually uncountable, plural coon's ages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "American English",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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        },
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jarn hasn't seen Schnie in a coon's age.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "We've been waiting a coon's age for our damn food.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very long time."
      ],
      "id": "en-coon's_age-en-noun-o~hqJZEz",
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, US, colloquial) A very long time."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "colloquial: a long time",
          "word": "dog's age"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "coon's age"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "An Americanism recorded in 1843 and probably related to the old English expression in a crow's age meaning the same. Coon is a colloquialism for the North American raccoon.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "coon's ages",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "coon's age (usually uncountable, plural coon's ages)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "American English",
        "English colloquialisms",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Jarn hasn't seen Schnie in a coon's age.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "We've been waiting a coon's age for our damn food.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A very long time."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "long",
          "long"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, US, colloquial) A very long time."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "US",
        "colloquial",
        "idiomatic",
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "colloquial: a long time",
      "word": "dog's age"
    }
  ],
  "word": "coon's age"
}