[
US
/ˈku/
]
[ UK /kˈuːp/ ]
[ UK /kˈuːp/ ]
NOUN
- a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force
- a brilliant and notable success
How To Use coup In A Sentence
- I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
- He would make an appointment with him to straighten out a couple of things.
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- He did his final piece of serious work on Tuesday morning, which was grand, and we have just kept him ticking over with a couple of canters.
- He made comments about a couple of items, suggesting an appetizer that sounded unlikely but that, in his words,'went down a treat. FOLLY
- The house was a semi-detached with a couple of children playing in the front lawn and his son was just arriving home from his days work.
- There are only a couple of days left in Graeme's Fantasy Book Review's Giveaway for one of three copies of Orson Scott Card's new release, Hidden Empire. Book Contest Links ... more than a few
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.