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putsch
[ pooch ]
noun
- a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.
putsch
/ pʊtʃ /
noun
- a violent and sudden uprising; political revolt, esp a coup d'état
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Word History and Origins
Origin of putsch1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of putsch1
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Example Sentences
The German infatuation with Atatürk and Turkey waned after the Beerhall Putsch.
A lack of contenders to replace McConnell also makes a putsch unlikely.
But pity Alison Lundergan Grimes, the primary beneficiary of the anti-Ashley putsch.
Naturally Neurath repeated the standard line, that Röhm had planned a putsch, but Dodd could sense that Neurath was shaken.
The last time Republicans seized control of the House, in 1994, there was an intraparty putsch.
In the street fighting that followed the attempted fascist Putsch a number were killed and wounded.
And I also fail to understand the timing of The Brain's putsch.
They were exploiting a local "putsch" so as to carry out a general "pogrom."
In 1920, a general strike defeated the attempt of the militarists to seize control of the state in the Kapp Putsch.
He gasped once or twice and then started sneezing—hoc-hoc-put-putsch!
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