Definitions for coup

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coup coup

Spelling: [koo]

IPA: /ku/

Coup is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in coup (copu).

Definitions for coup

noun

1. a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
2. (among the Plains Indians of North America) a brave or reckless deed performed in battle by a single warrior, as touching or striking an enemy warrior without sustaining injury oneself.
3. coup d'état.

Idioms

1. count coup, to perform a coup. to recount or relate the coups one has performed.

verb (used with or without object)

1. overturn; upset.

Origin of coup

1640-50; French: literally, blow, stroke, Old French colp Late Latin colpus, Latin colaphus Greek kólaphos

Examples for coup

You had just planned a coup on the Stock Exchange which promised you immense rewards.

He sat down at the table and began a warm panegyric on the coup d'Etat.

Perhaps in part because it was an FBI coup, the CIA stepped in with its high-priced psychologist.

Eugene briefly announced the complete success of the coup d'Etat.

He was taken prisoner by the insurgents at the time of the coup d'Etat.

As it happened, the coup members found the State House “fortified with additional soldiers.”

That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.

Most coup members “lived in the diaspora in the United States and Germany,” Faal said.

Had the coup succeeded, the Qatar problem might have become still worse than it is.

He preferred to wait and see what coup it was she was now preparing.