coup
A quick, brilliant, and highly successful actA quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
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Meaning
6 sensesA quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
Coup
(US, historical)Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
A coup d'état.
(broadly)A takeover of one group by another.
Coup
переворо́тperevorót
A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
- a brilliant and notable success
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
Examples
46 sentencesDo you think there will be a coup?
The coup was carried out carefully.
ruПереворот был выполнен тщательно.
The generals conducted a successful coup.
He took power in a military coup.
The foreign billionaire carried out a coup.
Translations
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Origin
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup,Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
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Forms
plural: coupsSynonyms
4 synonyms- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force:coup d'etatputschtakeover