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toon

noun (1)
\ ˈtün How to pronounce toon (audio) \
variants: or 'toon
plural toons or 'toons

Definition of toon

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: cartoon: such as
a : comic strip … launched the 'toon in 1930, with Dagwood as a lazy rich playboy and flapper Blondie as one of his many girlfriends.— Mike Peters
b : animated cartoon … its most recent live-action adaptation of one of its classic toons, earned a tidy $69 million in its first weekend in theaters, good enough for first place.— Mike Scott also : a character in an animated cartoon … it's surprisingly easy for the reader too to accept Gary Wolf's wacky universe, where humans interact with 'toons. The New York Times … witty new catchphrases for the endearingly wiseass little toon Bart Simpson … Entertainment Weekly