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Definition of putsch noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

putsch

noun

/pʊtʃ/

/pʊtʃ/

(from German)

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a sudden attempt to remove a government by force
Word Origin1920s: from Swiss German, literally ‘thrust, blow’.

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