Coup - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: coupCrypto-coup
Crypto-coup, the use of the word crypto, is rather puzzling. The word cryptic means mysterious. So the said phrase may be construed as mysterious coup, 'constitutional values versus globalisational crypto-coup: To be or not to be: that is the question.' [Globalisation-Vanishing National Economics and Diminishing Labour Survival in Justice Iyer, Off the Bench, Universal Law Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd., p. 225]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...
Coopee
See Coupe...
Coup
A sudden stroke delivered with promptness and force used also in various ways to convey the idea of an unexpected clever and successful tactic or stratagem...
Couped
Cut off smoothly as distinguished from erased used especially for the head or limb of an animal See Erased...
Coupe gorge
Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces...
Coupstick
A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup...
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