What does "putsch" mean?

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

What is a synonym for "putsch"?

Common synonyms include: coup, coup d'etat, armed overthrow, coup detat, coups, insurrection.

/pʊt͡ʃ/ noun

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Noun

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

"Wokeness is as real as the Doctors' Plot and the Röhm Putsch, and serves the same purpose."

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