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coup sticks

coup sticks is the plural of coup stick.

Meaning of coup stick

Noun

coup stick (plural coup sticks)

  1. A stick used by the Plains Indians of North America for touching the enemy in battle in order to count coup.
    • Then the lot of them rode him down for sport, striking him with their coup sticks.1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171

Questions about coup sticks

What is coup sticks the plural of?
Coup sticks is the plural of coup stick.

Words near coup sticks in the dictionary

  1. coup de savate
  2. coup de tat
  3. coup de theatre
  4. coup de théâtre
  5. coup stick
  6. coup sticks
  7. coup Turc
  8. coup-de-grace
  9. coupage
  10. Coupar Angus
  11. coupe

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