coup

Meaning

1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
2. A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
3. A coup d'état.
4. 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.

putsch

coup d’etat

coup d’état

take-over

clever stroke

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/kuː/

(Re)borrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).

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