couping

Verb (1)

coup (third-person singular simple present coups, present participle couping, simple past and past participle couped)

1. (intransitive) To execute a coup.
   • The squaws of another race will sing the death-song of their benefactor, and woe to the Sioux if the Northern Cheyennes get a chance to coup !1895, Frederic Remington, “Lieutenant Casey’s Last Scout”, in Pony Tracks, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 48
2. (informal, transitive) To subject (a nation) to a coup d'état.
   • We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.2020 June 24, Elon Musk, Twitter (tweet), deleted; screenshot and quoted in Alan MacLeod, “United Tesla Company: Widespread Condemnation of Elon Musk's Bolivia Coup Comments”, in MintPress News, 27...
3. (transitive) To empty out, overturn, or tilt, such as from a cart or wheelbarrow.

Verb (2)

coup (third-person singular simple present coups, present participle couping, simple past and past participle couped)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) To exchange, barter.
   • How that he had been couped from hand to hand, ſometimes kept againſt his will as Captive, ſometimes beſieged, ſometimes brought to battle againſt his will by the Duglaſſes to fight againſt the Earl of Lenox, […]c. 1610, James Melvil, edited by George Scott, The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-hill: Containing an Impartial Account of the Most Remarkable Affairs of State during the Last Age, Not Mention’d...

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