coupとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kuː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /kʊu/
• 韻: -uː
• Homophone: coo

名詞

coup (複数形 coups)

1. A quick, brilliant, and highly successful act.

   Synonym: triumph

   • 2000, P. E. Bryden, The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Negotiations, Edgar-André Montigny, Anne Lorene Chambers (editors), Ontario Since Confederation: A Reader, page 399,

     The conference was a major coup for Robarts, who received congratulations for his 'expert handling' of the 'risky venture.'

   • 2004, Charles R. Geisst, Wall Street: A History, page 116,

     While the price was considered a coup for Morgan, enhancing his reputation on Wall Street, Carnegie had a different explanation for his selling price.

   • 2005, Laryce Henderson Rybka, Legacy of the Lamp, page 252,

     " […] It was quite a coup for Pullen Park to get it. It had been in storage for awhile, and several parks in other places wanted to purchase it."

   • 2014, Jamie Jackson, "Ángel di María says Manchester United were the ‘only club’ after Real", The Guardian, 26 August 2014:

     Yet the capture of Di María, who was the man of the match when Real won a 10th Champions League in May, represents something a coup for United considering the club are not in Europe’s premier club competition and need to strengthen their squad after the team have let five points slip from the first two matches.

   • 2020 November 15, Yen Nee Lee, ‘A coup for China’: Analysts react to the world’s largest trade deal that excludes the U.S.‎^[1], CNBC:

     The diplomatic messaging of RCEP may be just as important as the economics—a coup for China.

   • 2022 April 30, Biden, Joe, President Biden complete remarks at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner (C-SPAN)‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN, archived from the original on 01 May 2022, 1:02 from the start:

     Just imagine if my predecessor came to this dinner this year. Now that would really have been a real coup if that occurred. [audience gasps] Little tough, huh?

2. (US, historical, of Native Americans) A blow against an enemy delivered in a way that shows bravery.
   • 1892, George Bird Grinnell, “The Blackfoot in War”, in Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, page 248:

     Among the Blackfeet the capture of a shield, bow, gun, war bonnet, war shirt, or medicine pipe was deemed a coup.

   • 2007, James Mooney, George Bird Grinnell, Edmund Nequatewa, Native American Ways: Four Paths to Enlightenment, page 316,

     Thus, for a horseman to ride over and knock down an enemy, who was on foot, was regarded among the Blackfeet as a coup, for the horseman might be shot at close quarters, or might receive a lance thrust.

3. A coup d'état.

   Synonym: putsch

   • 1985, Christopher S. Clapham, Third World Politics: An Introduction, page 137,

     Military coups and the military regimes which follow from them are so much a feature of third world politics that their presence or absence in any given region might almost be taken as a rough and ready touchstone of third worldliness.

   • 2003, April A. Gordon, Nigeria's Diverse Peoples: A Reference Sourcebook, page 130,

     It was the military's discontent with what was happening in the country and in the military that led to the first military coup in January 1966. The First Republic was brought to an ignoble end and replaced with a military government.

   • 2013 August 23, Jonathan Steele, “The west has little influence in Egypt”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 18:

     The coup was well-planned. Fuel was artificially held back so as to create shortages and dissatisfaction with Brotherhood rule. The old state-controlled unions mounted public sector strikes that further sabotaged the economy and annoyed people. Police-controlled thugs who had been used against the Tahrir Square demonstrations in 2011 came back into action.

4. (by extension) A takeover of one group by another.
5. A single roll of the wheel at roulette, or a deal in rouge et noir.
6. (bridge) One of various named strategies employed by the declarer to win more tricks, such as the Bath coup.

派生語

• count coup (米国用法, historical)
• coup stick (米国用法, historical)
• coupist
• coupism

関連する語

• coup d'état
• coup d'oeil
• coup de foudre
• coup de grâce
• coup de main
• coup de théâtre

動詞

coup (三人称単数 現在形 coups, 現在分詞 couping, 過去形および過去分詞形 couped)

1. (intransitive) To make a coup.
   • 1895, Frederic Remington, “Lieutenant Casey’s Last Scout”, in Pony Tracks, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 48:

     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 !

参考

• touché (acknowledgement of a successful hit)

アナグラム

• Cupo