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Coup
Coup Coup (k[=oo]), n.
1. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal at rouge
et noir. [Cant]
2. Among some tribes of North American Indians, the act of
striking or touching an enemy in warfare with the hand or
at close quarters, as with a short stick, in such a manner
as by custom to entitle the doer to count the deed an act
of bravery; hence, any of various other deeds recognized
by custom as acts of bravery or honor.
While the coup was primarily, and usually, a blow
with something held in the hand, other acts in
warfare which involved great danger to him who
performed them were also reckoned coups by some
tribes. --G. B.
Grinnell.
Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow,
gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was
deemed a coup. --G. B.
Grinnell.
Coup
Coup Coup v. i.
To make a coup.
Woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance
to coup ! --F.
Remington.
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