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What does coup mean?

coup

a brilliant and notable success (= coup d''etat) a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force

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The coup attempt was foiled at the last moment.
The dictator seized power in a military coup.
The hens are in the chicken coup.
We only have secondhand information of the coup.
That was a huge coup.

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That was a bloody coup.
If she did, and she shared those with us, that would represent the biggest intelligence coup in a decade.
I've pulled a supreme coup. A masterpiece.
Your coup stick shows many scalps.
That's quite a coup for you.
A brilliant coup.
I was the cause. he was losing a coup lately.
A coup d'etat, huh?
What a pity that would be on the eve of the greatest criminal coup ever!
My dear boy, what a coup!
After the coup they moved here.
We prepared for a 6 hour defence in case of a local coup d'etat.
To capture the Black Queen, we need to have a military coup.
I think, this is the coup of the century.
I paid the price after Napoleon III's December '51 coup.
If I gave up this daring coup for you, would you leave Krantz? Would you leave me?
He should have used false bills. - I should know, after yesterday's coup.
What coup?
Now that it's all over, I suppose I may dare say it's been a most remarkable coup.
All I've been able to get out of her is some baloney about why she flew the coup.
There will sure be a coup d'etat.
Say! That's a big coup.
Hitler refused, so the military pulled a coup d'etat and assassinated him.
The kind of guys that in the middle of the night like to go hunting, like those involved in the Coup of 1865.
Let's take the power in a coup. Change the game. Let's write history.
There will be an important assassination today, an equally dangerous government coup in Asia.
Oh, no! I have pulled off the coup of the year.
It's a deadly business to pull off a coup here.
The coup d'etat. Which city?
Accused of convincing a group of officers..to support De Vincenzo's misfired coup d'etat.
There's going to be a coup d'etat!
I assure you that coup d'etat plots..are not exactly new to our ears.
This is a coup d'etat!

News and current affairs

It appears to have mostly learned its lesson about keeping out of politics, having been drawn into the coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in August, 1991, only to switch sides when young officers and conscripts balked at carrying out orders.
NATO's bombing was the coup de grace for an economy dying on its feet.
When Franco died in 1975, Spain's future path was not obvious, as evidenced by the attempted coup of February 1981.
Rebels know that if they succeed, they will gain immense personal wealth, be able to reward those who backed their coup, and have enough arms to keep themselves in power, no matter how badly they rule.
The weapons of shame and international opprobrium should be mustered to make it impossible for any democratic nation to legitimize a coup in another democratic country.
His removal by military coup was unjustified.
The IMF has talked with the Egyptian government for two and a half years since Mubarak's overthrow without so much as lending a single cent, sealing the Egyptian economy's fate and contributing to public unrest and the recent coup.
The coup and the West's complacency about it (if not complicity in it) could devastate Egypt.
Argentina provided the coup de grace to the IMF's big bailout strategy.
And the army's ultimatum indicates that the military is moving in the direction of a coup.
The prosecutions have allowed him to position himself as the protector of Turkish democracy against the coup plotters allegedly still running rampant among the military and secularists.
For example, the alleged 2003 coup plot was supposedly discovered when CDs containing detailed preparations (including assassination teams and plans to bomb two mosques) were delivered to a virulently anti-military newspaper.
In addition to major internal contradictions and inconsistencies, the coup plot documents are full of references to entities that did not even exist in 2003, as well as to developments that took place later.
President Estrada of the Philippines, who never mastered his office, was removed in a bloodless coup aided by mob rule.
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
More than any other event of our era, that violent coup was responsible for launching both the contemporary global movement for human rights and the American movement to promote human rights internationally.
In the US, members of Congress turned the coup into a platform for efforts to promote human rights.
The Assange case shows that no coup is needed to close down an open society.
Serious wrongdoing, involving bribery and institutional corruption, no doubt occurred along the way; but the scale of such offenses could hardly justify last year's military coup and the subsequent repression.
For starters, Lee did not come to power in a military coup, and his opponents were not massacred in football stadiums.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's stalemated first term and the repeated rumors of looming coup attempts against her: each bears testimony to a form of democratic paralysis in Asia.
When a bloody coup against Corazon Aquino's fledgling democratic government failed, the leader of the putsch escaped from a floating prison - and then successfully ran for senator.
ANTALYA - The recent coup attempt in Libya, led by General Khalifa Hiftar, has finally pierced the illusion that the country's dysfunctional central government, whose power is limited to the capital, Tripoli, can rule effectively.
Hiftar recognizes the problem with this approach - indeed, it spurred him to initiate the coup; but his proposed solution is equally flawed.
Back then, many predicted that Lagos wouldn't last the thousand or so days that Allende ruled before Pinochet launched his coup.
Acclaimed as a national hero among radical right-wingers, the iron-fisted Park Chung-hee ruled South Korea from 1963 to 1979, in the wake of the 1961 military coup, only to be assassinated by his intelligence chief.
Honduras was suspended from the OAS last year, after the June coup that overthrew elected president Manuel Zelaya.
That plebiscite was scheduled for October 5, 1988, fifteen years after Pinochet's coup.
Was Morsi's ouster a classic counterrevolution in the guise of a military coup?

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