coup

Significat (Anglès)

Noun

1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
2. (US, historical) Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.
3. A coup d'état.
4. (broadly) A takeover of one group by another.
5. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
6. One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To execute a coup.
2. (informal, transitive) To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.
3. (transitive) To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.

Verb

To exchange, barter.

Conceptes

cop d’estat

cop

colp d’estat

rebuig

colp

Sinònims

putsch

coup d’etat

revolution

coup d’état

takeover

overthrow

stroke

coup d'état

blow

triumph

😤

mutiny

strike

success

insurrection

jolt

luck

🍀

overturn

penetration

percussion

prosperity

quantum leap

rap

rebel

revolt

sleeper

smasher

take-over

thrust

tit

upheaval

whack

battery

🔋

wow

good fortune

master stroke

clever stroke

whop

big time

blast

box

📦

breakthrough

bruise

bump

clearance

dethroning

flick

hit

home run

impact

Traduccions

Putsch

coup

Staatsstreich

πραξικόπημα

coup d’État

golpe

Coup

coup

golpe

putsch

staatsgreep

colpo

colpo di Stato

κτύπημα

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kuː/

Etimologia (Anglès)

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).