Usually means: Overthrow of government by force.
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  1. coups: Merriam-Webster
  2. coups: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. coups: Collins English Dictionary
  4. coups: Vocabulary.com
  5. Coup's, Coups, Coups, coup's, coups, coups: Wordnik
  6. coups: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. coups: Wiktionary
  8. coups: Dictionary.com
  9. coups: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Coups: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  1. coups: Encyclopedia

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  1. coups: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. coups: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (coup)

noun:  A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
noun:  (US, historical, of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
noun:  A coup d'état.
noun:  (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
noun:  A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
noun:  (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a coup.
verb:  (transitive) To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.
verb:  (informal, transitive) To subject a nation to a coup d'état.
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