Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to coup
Participle: couped
Gerund: couping
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | coup |
| you | coup |
| he;she;it | coups |
| we | coup |
| you | coup |
| they | coup |
Perfect
| I | have couped |
| you | have couped |
| he;she;it | has couped |
| we | have couped |
| you | have couped |
| they | have couped |
Past
| I | couped |
| you | couped |
| he;she;it | couped |
| we | couped |
| you | couped |
| they | couped |
Pluperfect
| I | had couped |
| you | had couped |
| he;she;it | had couped |
| we | had couped |
| you | had couped |
| they | had couped |
Future
| I | will coup |
| you | will coup |
| he;she;it | will coup |
| we | will coup |
| you | will coup |
| they | will coup |
Future Perfect
| I | will have couped |
| you | will have couped |
| he;she;it | will have couped |
| we | will have couped |
| you | will have couped |
| they | will have couped |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | coup |
| you | coup |
| he;she;it | coup |
| we | coup |
| you | coup |
| they | coup |
Perfect
| I | have couped |
| you | have couped |
| he;she;it | have couped |
| we | have couped |
| you | have couped |
| they | have couped |
Imperfect
| I | couped |
| you | couped |
| he;she;it | couped |
| we | couped |
| you | couped |
| they | couped |
Pluperfect
| I | had couped |
| you | had couped |
| he;she;it | had couped |
| we | had couped |
| you | had couped |
| they | had couped |
Conditional
Present
| I | would coup |
| you | would coup |
| he;she;it | would coup |
| we | would coup |
| you | would coup |
| they | would coup |
Perfect
| I | would have couped |
| you | would have couped |
| he;she;it | would have couped |
| we | would have couped |
| you | would have couped |
| they | would have couped |
Imperative
| you | coup |
| we | Let's coup |
| you | coup |
Verbs conjugated like 'coup'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'coup'
comp,
coop,
cop,
cowp,
croup,
cup,
poup,
roup,
soup,
boop,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Reborrowed in modern times from modern French coup (“blow, strike”), from Old French coup, colp, from Late Latin colpus, from Latin colaphus. Doublet of cope and colpus. The same Old French word had been borrowed into Middle English as coupe, caupe (with different pronunciation).
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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 July 2020:]
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In response to the accusation that the US government organised a coup against Evo Morales in Bolivia in order for Tesla to secure lithium there, Musk tweeted: “We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.” [2023 November 25, Douglas Rushkoff, quoting Elon Musk, “‘We will coup whoever we want!’: the unbearable hubris of Musk and the billionaire tech bros”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:]