Coup is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for COUP in dictionary:

VERB:
• (Scots) to overturn, turn up, also COWP
• turn or fall over
NOUN:
• a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government
• an instance of successfully achieving something difficult
• an unusual or unexpected but successful tactic in card play.
• a direct pocketing of the cue ball, which is a foul stroke.
• successful action
• A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
• a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
• a brilliant and notable success
• (among North American Indians) an act of touching an enemy, as a deed of bravery, or an act of first touching an item of the enemy's in order to claim it.

Words related to COUP

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Words that contain COUP

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How to use COUP in a sentence

• The two lads had been instrumental in helping Lord Hastings, a British nobleman, put through a coup that kept Italy out of the war on the side of Germany and Austria.
• That surprise was due to the sly craft of Ambroise, who merrily explained how he had prepared it like a masterly coup de theatre.
• The patience of the Germans was exhausted, and the Kaiser made the coup of Agadir.
• From the disagreeable situation in which the spring found him he extricated himself by a fortunate -coup de main-.
• Le fer y est enfonce dans le bois, et ne peut ni supporter un grand coup, ni faire plaie que quand il trouve une partie decouverte.
• Strange to say, he had been instructed from London to look out for just such a coup on the part of the heirs.
• The effect of the Young Turk coup in the Balkan States was as any one who visited them at that time can testify, both pathetic and intensely humorous.
• Just now it was apparent that Balcom and Zita, for their own ends, whatever might be the identity of the Automaton, planned a coup for themselves.
• I am sure a grand coup de malheur at play would oppress me beyond anything.
• Thwarted Escape Months after the coup, Atmananda held late-night meetings less often, and I soon caught up on sleep.
• Here, then, was the making of the spectacular coup which Mosby needed to answer his critics and enemies, both at Middleburg and at army headquarters.
• With potash, coal and iron, this was a Teutonic coup for industrial and commercial supremacy indeed.
• That Austria, as some have stated, should have planned the coup is very improbable.
• The effect of this coup on the Balkans was electric.
• Unless he was preparing a coup against the Prince, he could have no need of a private munition store.
• A wise member of the Service was chosen to make the coup.
• It was the story of one who risked all in one grand final coup, who risked all and lost all.
• After this brilliant coup, many of the soldiers joined the pirates.
• A shirt covered them in rather an imperfect manner, and a handkerchief bound round their heads protected them from a coup de soleil.
• It was merely his intention to deliver such a blow as would make the coup planned by the Germans impracticable.
• However, he has had his coup de grace, and that may account for it.
• A coup, such as kissing a Marshal Joffre, Aeroplaning over the bay, Diving with Annette Kellerman.
• I had taken no horses, and I could not go back to my people without counting a coup.
• Give him the coup de grace at once, for his own sake as well as for ours.
• Consider, besides, that when the soldiers gave the coup de grace to the two robbers, that they did not break the legs of Jews.
• For the French force sent against them had been a strong one, well equipped, and hopeful of surprising the place and carrying it by a coup de main.
• Was it really true that Marianne was sufficiently audacious to have brought about this coup de theatre? No, there was some error.
• He makes a brilliant coup or so and then disappears in some overwhelming disaster.

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