Definition: 1. A sudden, illegal and often violent, change of government. 2. A sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force. 3. A brilliant and notable success.
Use 'coup' in a sentence:
1. Stock markets plunged at the news of the coup.
2. To get Joe to come out of London and come to Liverpool is a coup for Hodgson itself.
3. All senior officers involved in the coup will have to be removed.
4. Getting the contract was quite a coup.
5. He is the sixth person to be arrested in relation to the coup plot.
6. That would be an even more remarkable coup.
7. Coup plotters tried to seize power in Moscow.
8. Good way to start a coup.
9. He is accused of complicity with the leader of the coup, former Colonel Gregorio Honasan.
10. Instead of an outright coup attempt, the rebels want to chip away at her authority.
11. His efforts to tighten up quality control led to a commercial coup.
12. Senior officers could be considering a coup to restore authoritarian rule.
13. A real coup for debugging!
14. A military coup seems unlikely.
15. India considered Obama's move to be an enormous coup regardless.
16. The French government has condemned the coup in Haiti and has demanded the restoration of the legitimate government.
17. Some competitions are so prestigious that winning is a true coup.
18. Her appointment to the IMF is a small coup for France.
19. They were sentenced to death for their part in April's coup attempt.
20. It was the first time military and political leaders had come together since the coup.
21. He was thrown out of the company in a boardroom coup in 1985.
22. The president was deposed in a military coup.
23. I could've said Coup DE Grace is 5.15b.
24. Seen initially as a strategic coup, the Merrill acquisition quickly soured.
25. The stock market crash of 1929 ruined many people. pull off a great coup.
26. In the end, it will probably be Mr Aso's mediocre performance that the coup DE grace.
27. He had apparently been under the impression that a military coup was in progress.
28. The election comes four years after a coup.
29. In 1979, I witnessed my first military coup.
30. The first military coup attempt happened only a year later.
31. Military officers were suspected of plotting a coup.
32. She lost her position in a boardroom coup.
33. The president was overthrown in a military coup.
34. Mr Ben Bella was deposed in a coup in 1965.
35. The coup failed because of miscalculations by the plotters.
36. There is no record of the abortive military coup.
37. Just something the French call a coup d'etat.
38. A militia of designers have assembled to launch this coup.
39. The coup failed but the government fell shortly afterwards.
40. Regency Opera have scored something of a coup by persuading her to undertake the role.
41. He was a military strongman who ruled the country after a coup.
42. It would be quite a coup for you if you were appointed a member of the government. you'd really have power you want, then.
43. He was ousted in a coup two years ago.
44. Some military commanders wavered over whether to support the coup.
45. The monarch was ousted by a military coup.
46. Getting this contract has been quite a coup for us.
47. And political scientists who study coups say Turkey should have been at little risk.
48. It is not cyberwar. It is a propaganda coup.
49. The coup brought his corrupt regime to an end.
50. He seized power in a military coup in 1997.
51. Allende is the first cousin once removed of former Chilean president Salvador Allende, who was murdered during a right-wing military coup in 1973.
52. But after years of undeniable adulation among Spaniards for putting down an attempted coup in 1981, he's recently faced more difficult times.
53. The sale is a big coup for the auction house.
54. He seized power in a military coup.
55. The coup leaders could face life imprisonment.
56. The French regard this as a coup.
57. Poaching him was regarded as a coup in the technology world.
58. The president's recent death set the stage for a military coup.
59. Irving Kristol delivered the coup de grace in a letter dated June 12: they had decided to reject the proposal.
60. My disastrous exam results dealt the coup de gr â ce to my university career.
61. But CSR was not able to enjoy its coup for long.
