0 an occasion when a group of people suddenly takes control of a country using force -- golpe de Estado
a military coup
1 a sudden successful action -- logro
2 a coup d’état -- golpe de estado
There’s been a coup in one of the African republics.
This is little less than a bloodless coup d'état.
Now it is over: negotiations have been held, the hostages have been freed and the coup has been over for some time.
So they resorted to lies and deceit, they staged the most spectacular bureaucratic coup d'état that the world had ever seen.
I condemn this military coup in the strongest terms.
It is a coup d'état.
A coup is almost certain.
