To cut; slash: in the extracts, with reference to shoes ornamentally slashed.To upset; overturn; tilt over; turn upside down; dump: as, to coup the cart.To die.To give or exchange blows; fight.To upset; be overturned; fall or tumble over.To swoop.n. A blow; a stroke.n. A trick; a snare.n. The act of upsetting or overturning, or state of being overturned; the act of dumping.n. A tumble; a fall.n. A fault in a seam of coal.n. A cart-load.To barter; buy and sell, as horses or cattle.n. An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of cup.n. A stroke or blow, especially a sudden stroke, implying promptness and force: a French word used in English in various French phrases, or singly, with conscious reference to its French use.n. Specifically, with reference to the north western tribes of the Indians of North America, a stroke that captures the weapon or horse of an enemy; hence, victory over an enemy.n. A coup d'état; a stroke of policy. See below.n. Specifically— Milit., that talent for rapid observation and generalization by which an officer is enabled by a glance to estimate the advantages and disadvantages of a field of battle for attack and defense, and thus to post his troops without delay so as to make the most of it.n. A stroke; a brilliant play; in banking games the decision of all the bets by one event.