coup

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.

   “The conference was a major coup for Robarts, who received congratulations for his 'expert handling' of the 'risky venture.'”

2. isim Of Native Americans, a blow against an enemy delivered in a way that demonstrates bravery.

   “Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup.”

3. isim A coup d'état.

   “Military coups and the military regimes which follow from them are so much a feature of third world politics that their presence or absence in any given region might almost be taken as a rough and ready touchstone of third worldliness.”

4. isim A takeover of one group by another.
5. isim A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
6. isim One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
7. fiil To execute a coup.

   “The squaws of another race will sing the death-song of their benefactor, and woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !”

8. fiil To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.

   “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.”

9. fiil To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
10. fiil To exchange, barter.

    “How that he had been couped from hand to hand, ſometimes kept againſt his will as Captive, ſometimes beſieged, ſometimes brought to battle againſt his will by the Duglaſſes to fight againſt the Earl of Lenox, […]”