coup
/ku/ verb C2- To execute a coup.
- To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.
- To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
He/she/it coups · Past couped · Past participle couped · -ing form couping
Verb forms
- Base form
- coup
- He/she/it
- coups
- Past
- couped
- Past participle
- couped
- -ing form
- couping
From the library
It is a matter of history—that secret history of a nation which is often so much more intimate and interesting than its public chronicles—that Oberstein, eager to complete the coup of his lifetime, came to the lure and was safely engulfed for fifteen years in a British prison.
It would have been a coup-de-maître had he deduced what I would deduce and acted accordingly.”
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