coup

Meanings

Noun

• A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.
• A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
• A coup d'état.
• A takeover of one group by another.
• A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
• One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.

Verb

• To make a coup.

Origin

• Borrowed from French coup ("blow, strike"), from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. colpus.