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coup

UK/kuː/ US/ku/ fairly common informal us

noun

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Origin

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).

Phrases

  • colonels' coup
  • count coup
  • coup d'arret
  • coup stick
  • generals' coup
  • palace coup
  • soft coup
  • Vienna coup

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