coupé

[koo-pey or, for 1, 5, koop]

cou·pé

[koo-pey or, for 1, 5, koop]
noun
1.
a short, four-wheeled, closed carriage, usually with a single seat for two passengers and an outside seat for the driver.
2.
the end compartment in a European diligence or railroad car.
3.
Ballet. an intermediary step to transfer the weight from one foot to the other.
4.
(in Continental heraldry) party per fess.
5.
coupe1 (def. 1).
Also, coupe (for defs. 1–3).


Origin:
1825–35; < French coupé (in defs. 1 and 2 short for carrosse coupé cut (i.e., shortened) coach), past participle of couper to cut off, verbal derivative of coup coup; compare cope1

coup, coupe, coupé.
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Coupé is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
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coupé (ˈkuːpeɪ)
 
n
1.  Compare drophead coupé Also called: fixed-head coupé a four-seater car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, and usually two doors
2.  a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two seats inside and one outside for the driver
3.  an end compartment in a European railway carriage with seats on one side only
 
[C19: from French, short for carosse coupé, literally: cut-off carriage, from couper to cut, from coup blow, stroke]

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