putsch

putsch

also Putsch P0679600 (po͝och)n. A sudden attempt by a group to overthrow a government.

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[German, from German dialectal, from Middle High German, thrust, of imitative origin.]

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putsch′ist n.

putsch

(pʊtʃ) n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) a violent and sudden uprising; political revolt, esp a coup d'état[C20: from German: from Swiss German: a push, of imitative origin]

putsch

(pʊtʃ)

n. a sudden political revolt or uprising. [1915–20; < German Putsch, orig. Swiss German: literally, violent blow, clash, shock; introduced into standard German through reports of Swiss popular uprisings of the 1830s, especially the Zurich revolt of Sept., 1839]

putsch

1. A German word meaning push, used to mean an attempt to overthrow a government by force.2. A German word for thrust, meaning an attempt to overthrow a government, such as that led by Hitler from a Munich beer-hall in 1923, which failed ignominiously.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

putsch - a sudden and decisive change of government illegally or by forcecoup, coup d'etat, takeovergroup action - action taken by a group of peoplecountercoup - a sudden and decisive overthrow of a government that gained power by a coup d'etat

Translations

Putschcolpo di statosommossaпутч