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Putsch

//pʊt͡ʃ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A coup d'état; an illegal effort to forcibly overthrow the current government.

    "Afterward, the ringleaders of the failed putsch were publicly executed."

  2. 2
    a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by force wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from German Putsch, from Alemannic German Putsch (“knock, thrust, blow”), of imitative origin.

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