Skip to main content

coup

/koo/US // ku //UK // (kuː) //

政变,运筹帷幄,政令

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural coups [kooz; French koo]. /kuz; French ku/.

    • : a highly successful, unexpected stroke, act, or move; a clever action or accomplishment.
    • : a brave or reckless deed performed in battle by a single warrior, as touching or striking an enemy warrior without sustaining injury oneself.
    • : coup d'état.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti claims he survived a coup attempt on Sunday.

  • To stop the coup they feared, the left was ready to flood the streets.

  • Thailand, where the military remains in power after a successful coup in 2014, will be only too happy to continue trade with Myanmar.

  • Myanmar pulled the plug during a military coup d’état this weekend, as Aaron noted in yesterday’s newsletter.

  • Where there’s a coup, there will probably be an internet outage.

  • As it happened, the coup members found the State House “fortified with additional soldiers.”

  • Most coup members “lived in the diaspora in the United States and Germany,” Faal said.

  • That Stone would slander the democratic, pro-Western, EuroMaidan revolution as a CIA coup is no surprise.

  • Perhaps in part because it was an FBI coup, the CIA stepped in with its high-priced psychologist.

  • Had the coup succeeded, the Qatar problem might have become still worse than it is.

  • Le lendemain matin, un coup de vent l'emporta tout seul dehors de la chaloupe dans les vagues, et jamais depuis, n'est apparu.

  • My coup-d'œil assured me that it was practicable to give to this feature the character of a projecting under-jaw.

  • On ne peut arracher tout d'un coup les coutumes & faons de faire inveteres d'un peuple quel que ce soit.

  • Calm under fire, he possessed a sure and penetrating coup d'œil; he had great experience in war.

  • Constantinople serait directement menacé par ce coup retentissant.