Coup d'état 

The overthrow of the current establishment, by dissidents within the government.

Dude 1: "Did you guys hear that General Pinochet died?"
Female: "Didn't he start the coup d'état back in the 70s?"
Dude 2: "Yeah, I'm not sorry that guy is dead, had my uncle killed."
Dude 1: "Fuck your communist tree loving fag uncle."

Coup d'état by Joseph L December 12, 2006

Coup d'état 

Physically picking a French person and smacking an important person to take over their business.

We wanted to take over AMC, therefore we marched to the CEO's office and hit him hard. After that, a french person walked by and we totally Coup d'étated the CEO with him.

Coup d'état by Giadeli December 10, 2010

coup d'etat

Overthrow of the government. Anarchy

1. When Napoleon and two directors took over the French Government, that was a coup d'etat.

coup d'etat by imatease November 7, 2003

coup d'etat

a) when militia storm the government HQ and cease control of a country.

b) When a government is discredited by its' actions enough for them to be forced by thier people to hand over power, since no-one is listening to them

b) The house-arrest of Mikhail Gorbachev was ended by Boris Yeltsins' coup d'etat in which he campaigned against the USSR government of which he was a member with the people on his side and the military disobeying thier oders to prevent the people, thus securing the military on his side.

coup d'etat by Kung-Fu Jesus May 2, 2004

coup d'etat

(GOVERNMENT) seizure of power by an armed entity, usually the army but sometimes the police.

Usually coups are perpetrated in countries with very weak governments, such as in West Africa, Bolivia, or Southwest Asia. They get progressively worse (i.e., more violent, more prolonged, and more repressive) until eventually some junta builds up protection against against the next coup. This is what happened in Iraq after 1979; it happened in Syria in 1973; it also happened in Japan in 1607. In other cases, the coup accomplishes its goals (Chile 1973) and retires as a PR move.

After a coup occurs, the military leadership is known as a junta.

Military coups are usually motivated by the personal ambition of the perpetrator; the central figure is usually very personally corrupt, as well.

Military coups are difficult to pull off and usually are nipped in the bud. Even with foreign assistance, they are hard, because they are a form of high-speed civil war.

Inter-class violence often comes with a coup d'etat.

coup d'etat by Primus Intra Pares July 11, 2010

Coup d'etat

French term meaning "blow to the state" coined after General Napoleon Bonaparte's 1799 seizure of power and suppression of the Constitution of 1795 in that country. Though often associated with military uprisings a "coup" is defined as any entity within a existing political system that acts illegally to appropriate all power to that entity while often violently suppressing other institutions and power-centers (media, legislatures, trade unions, political parties, etc.).

You know, the 1917 so-called "Bolshevik Revolution" of Lenin and his people in Russia is interpreted by some historians as really just a coup d'etat by an armed political party when Lenin's followers used their control over the capital's local government to seizure control of the whole city, drive out the national government and use St. Petersburg to launch their conquest of the country.

Coup d'etat by BxMuscle February 23, 2019

coup d'etat

the machine gun shit you get after a night of drinking and eatint taco truck food, this shit is crucial...imagine a trumpet blowing out ground beef...the bang is definately bigger then the buck

Abdullah: Hey Sarah, whats crackin? why do you look tired so early in the morning?

Sarah: Dude, I was watchin the Cardinals game last night with the homies, we threw down hella beer and then got some mexican food from the TL...that shit did somethin funky to my stomach this morning...my ass took the 15th floor bathroom over this morning, it was like a coup d'etat...i went in there with a machine gun, and came out with no prisoners...it was modern warfare 2 in that motherfucker

coup d'etat by STREETLIGHTS February 26, 2010