Dictionary you say? I can’t define a coup but I know one when I see one.
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Coup- strike. Sudden hit. Remember the plains Indians “counting cous” ? That was getting close enough to the enemy to strike him with the hand. Coup is French and does not imply anything gradual or drawn out. It is a suden strike. I am sure you enthusiastically adopt all the counterintuitive redefinitions that the press posits. Your thought processes are therefore blurred by not actually knowing what a word means from day to day.