Coot (disambiguation)
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A coot is a water bird.
Coot or Coots may also refer to:
People
[edit]- Jamie Coots (1971–2014), American Pentecostal pastor and snake handler
- John Frederick Coots, American songwriter who wrote "Santa Claus is Coming to Town"
- Ed "Coots" Matthews, co-founder of Boots & Coots, a company specializing in putting out oil well fires
Aircraft
[edit]- the NATO reporting name of four Soviet airplanes:
- Coot, the second version of the Ilyushin Il-18, or a generic designation for the Il-18, Il-20, Il-22 and Il-24
- Coot-A, the Ilyushin Il-20 (1948)
- Coot-B, the Il-22, an airborne command center version of the Il-18
- Coot-C, the Ilyushin Il-24, an unbuilt variant
- Taylor Coot, an amphibious civilian airplane built by Moulton Taylor
Other uses
[edit]- Coot (vehicle), a four-wheel-drive articulated amphibious ATV built in the U.S. from 1967 to 1985
- Coot (trawler), the first Icelandic trawler
- Coots Lake, a lake in Georgia
- Coot Kin, a family of cartoon characters
- Coot (software), Crystallographic Object-Oriented Toolkit, a free chemistry software
- the Colby Outdoor Orientation Trips at Colby College, Maine