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coup

a brilliant and notable success

Synonyms:

• abduction,
• accomplished fact,
• accomplishment,
• achievement,
• act,
• acta,
• action,
• ad hoc measure,
• adventure,
• answer,
• apprehension,
• arrest,
• arrestation,
• art,
• artful dodge,
• artifice,
• blind,
• blow,
• breath,
• capture,
• catch,
• catching,
• chicanery,
• collaring,
• conspiracy,
• contrivance,
• countermove,
• course of action,
• crack,
• craft,
• cute trick,
• dealings,
• deceit,
• deed,
• demarche,
• design,
• device,
• dodge,
• doing,
• doings,
• dragnet,
• effort,
• endeavor,
• enterprise,
• expedient,
• exploit,
• fait accompli,
• fakement,
• feat,
• feint,
• fetch,
• flash,
• forcible seizure,
• gambit,
• game,
• gest,
• gimmick,
• go,
• grab,
• grabbing,
• grift,
• half a jiffy,
• half a mo,
• half a second,
• half a shake,
• hand,
• handiwork,
• hold,
• improvisation,
• instant,
• intrigue,
• jiff,
• jiffy,
• job,
• jugglery,
• jury-rig,
• jury-rigged expedient,
• kidnapping,
• knavery,
• last expedient,
• last resort,
• last shift,
• little game,
• makeshift,
• maneuver,
• means,
• measure,
• microsecond,
• millisecond,
• minute,
• moment,
• move,
• nabbing,
• operation,
• overt act,
• passage,
• performance,
• picking up,
• pis aller,
• plot,
• ploy,
• power grab,
• prehension,
• proceeding,
• production,
• racket,
• red herring,
• res gestae,
• resort,
• resource,
• running in,
• ruse,
• scheme,
• sec,
• second,
• seizure,
• seizure of power,
• shake,
• shake-up,
• shift,
• sleight,
• snatch,
• snatching,
• solution,
• split second,
• step,
• stopgap,
• stratagem,
• strategy,
• stroke,
• stroke of policy,
• stunt,
• subterfuge,
• tactic,
• taking in,
• taking into custody,
• temporary expedient,
• thing,
• thing done,
• tick,
• tour de force,
• transaction,
• trice,
• trick,
• trickery,
• trump,
• turn,
• twink,
• twinkle,
• twinkling,
• twitch,
• two shakes,
• undertaking,
• wile,
• wily device,
• wink,
• work,
• working hypothesis,
• working proposition,
• works