coup
IPA: kˈu
noun
- A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
- (US, historical, of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
- A coup d'état.
- (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
- A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
- (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
verb
- (intransitive) To make a coup.
Advertisement
Examples of "coup" in Sentences
- Little is known of the planning of the coup.
- The details of the attempted coup are unclear.
- The goal of the invasion was to stop the coup.
- Gatineau was the host of the 2006 Coupe Dodge.
- By the time of the coup he was allegedly bankrupt.
- He was one of the principal tacticians in the coup.
- The convertible coupe and the limosine are featured prominently.
- The coup was not the beginning of Naidu's criticism of the Military.
- The Caprice was available as the sport coupe or as the Landau coupe.
- The coup was swiftly followed by the Turkish military invasion of Cyprus.
- Thanks for the lecture on the use of the term coup d'état and it's synonym "take-over".
- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas orders counterblows against what he calls a coup attempt.
- Opposition parties said they were continuing plans to hold a peaceful march in Lome Saturday to protest what they called a coup d'etat.
- President Ali Abdullah Saleh told supporters his government had rejected what he called a "coup" against his country's constitution and democracy.
- He told supporters at a rally in the capital, Sana'a, his government had turned down what he called a "coup" against his country's constitution and democracy.
- Commenting on the activities of PKI chairman Aidit in Central Java immediately after the coup, it notes that he warned subordinates: at all costs not to allow the PKI to be provoked into violent action he told the people who assembled to hear him that there must be no demonstration of support for the coup .
- Ramey Wine Cellars A NUANCED VISION | Hyde Vineyards in Napa, source of a great Ramey Chardonnay David Ramey was driving on a dusty road through the land of tequila and mezcal when he had what he describes as his "coup de foudre"—otherwise known as his road-to-Mexicali moment—and realized, improbably, that he wanted to make wine.
Advertisement
Advertisement