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coup noun- a crime UK
- On this coup, though, he was the lookout. — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 167, 2001
- in horse racing, heavy and reckless betting in which a great deal of money is bet in secret at favourable odds AUSTRALIA, 1895
- As so often happened with coups wholly or partly engineered by Mr Connolly, the betting plunge on Nightmarch was successful. — Maurice Cavanough and Meurig Davies, Cup Day, p. 203, 1960
- — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 141, 1969
- — David Bennet, Know Your Bets, p. 26, 2001
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