noun

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A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.

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(of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.

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A coup d'état.

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(by extension) A takeover of one group by another.

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A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.

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One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.

verb

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To make a coup.

Examples of coups in a Sentence

A, general feeling that King Alexander contemplated changing the situation by one of his bold and clever coups d'etat increased the political unrest.

After a short mission in the western provinces he returned to Paris, and took an active part in the coups d'etat of the 31st of May and the 2nd of June, which resulted in the overthrow of the Girondists.

He was one of the promoters of the constitutional club of Salm, formed to counterbalance the royalist club of Clichy, and he supported Barras in 1797 and 17 9 9 in the coups d'etat of 18 Fructidor, and of 18 Brumaire.

The men of the 14th century, who commanded armies and executed coups detat at eighteen, were often worn out by sixty.

Its internal weakness, between the danger of anarchy and the opposition of the monar chists, was extreme; and it soon became discredited by its own coups detat and by financial impotence in the eyes of a nation sick of revolution, aspiring towards peace and the resumption of economic undertakings.

Political and financial coups detat were not enough for the directors.

In a world so jaded by unrest, military coups and the first stages of the cold war she was a beacon of hope.

Victories in the field were not more effective in consolidating Napoleon's power than were his own coups d'etat and the supremely skilful use which he made of conspiracies directed against him.

He intended that Spain should very soon have ready twenty-eight sail of the line - "ce qui est certes bien peu de chose" - so as to drive away the British squadrons, and then he would strike "de grands coups" in the autumn.

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