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putsch

[ pooch ]

noun

  1. a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.


putsch

/ ʊʃ /

noun

  1. a violent and sudden uprising; political revolt, esp a coup d'état
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of putsch1

1915–20; < German Putsch, originally Swiss German: literally, violent blow, clash, shock; introduced in sense “coup” in standard German through Swiss popular uprisings of the 1830s, especially the Zurich revolt of Sept. 1839
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of putsch1

C20: from German: from Swiss German: a push, of imitative origin
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Though they largely put down the putsch, many then turned their wrath on Alawites, a largely impoverished minority that constitutes some 10% of the country’s population and which dominated Assad-era security services and state bureaucracy.

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The Pizzagate-pushing host said the Trump administration would have total power to run such a putsch against the opposition.

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However, the venerable flag has been co-opted by Christians who think Trump deserved a putsch because the courts refused to take his frivolous election fraud lawsuits seriously.

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Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that the plotters and their leader had been “put out of action.”

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Not for those who suffered in the “dirty war” under the junta, but for those victims of leftist guerrillas before the putsch.

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