putsch


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
putsch /pʊtʃ/
noun a violent attempt to overthrow a government.
– derivatives
putschist noun.
– origin 1920s: from Swiss Ger., lit. ‘thrust, blow’.
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