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Definition of Coups

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.

Meaning of Coups from wikipedia

- systems than Cold War coups, though coups still mostly perpetuate authoritarianism. Many factors may lead to the occurrence of a coup, as well as determine...
- Coups debuted as a member and the leader of the South Korean boy group Seventeen with the extended play 17 Carat on May 26. Since debuting, S.Coups has...
- The Coup Belt (French: la ceinture de coups d'État) is a modern geopolitical concept and neologism which emerged during the 2020s to describe the region...
- Chief Plenty Coups became a chief at the age of twenty-nine; he is the last chief who was elected a chief by other chiefs. Plenty Coups was born into...
- from taking power. These events are called self coups. This is a chronological list of such coups and coup attempts, from ancient times to the present. 876...
- The 400 Blows (French: Les quatre cents coups) is a 1959 French coming-of-age drama film, and the directorial debut of François Truffaut, who also co-wrote...
- causes of the consistent pattern of coups. Nigerian military juntas of 1966–79 and 1983–98 List of coups and coup attempts by country Metz, Helen Chapin...
- The Fijian coups d'état of 1987 resulted in the overthrow of the elected government of Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra, the deposition of Elizabeth...
- (1991 coup d'état). 5–29 February 2004: Second deposition of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide (2004 coup d'état). List of coups d'état and coup attempts...
- have been four Fijian coups d'état in the past forty years: 1987 Fijian coups d'état (two) 2000 Fijian coup d'état 2006 Fijian coup d'état See also 2009...