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US
/ˈku/
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[ 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.
- There is a tradition of magickal practice in my family but sadly it fell into abeyance a couple of generations back.
- 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.
- The boa and the rattlesnake are homebodies that seldom travel more than a couple of miles in a lifetime.
- It felt like chewing string dipped in weed killer, but within a couple of minutes the trembling in his limbs gave way to a kind of enervated thrumming and the pounding in his head subsided to a manageable level. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- Mix up pots of poster paint, and give your children a pot of paint in each colour, a couple of brushes and a glass of water.
- After our engineless sail into the anchorage at Santa Domingo we spent a couple of days trying to resuscitate the iron genny. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
- She strode over to a couple of fallen logs and kicked one of them.
- 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.