coupe
noun
Also a closed, two-door car shorter than a sedan of the same model.
coupe
1 American
[koop]
/ kup /
coupe
2
American
[koop]
/ kup /
noun
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ice cream or sherbet mixed or topped with fruit, liqueur, whipped cream, etc.
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a glass container for serving such a dessert, usually having a stem and a wide, deep bowl.
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any rimless plate.
coupé
3
American
[koo-pay, koop]
/ kuˈpeɪ, kup /
noun
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coupés
plural
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a short, four-wheeled, closed carriage, usually with a single seat for two passengers and an outside seat for the driver.
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the end compartment in a European diligence or railroad car.
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Ballet. an intermediary step to transfer the weight from one foot to the other.
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(in Continental heraldry) party per fess.
coupé
1
British
/ ˈkuːpeɪ /
noun
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Also called: fixed-head coupé. a four-seater car with a fixed roof, a sloping back, and usually two doors Compare drophead coupé
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a four-wheeled horse-drawn carriage with two seats inside and one outside for the driver
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an end compartment in a European railway carriage with seats on one side only
coupe
2
British
/ kuːp /
noun
-
a dessert of fruit and ice cream, usually served in a glass goblet
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a dish or stemmed glass bowl designed for this dessert
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of coupe1
First recorded in 1880–85; see origin at coupé
Origin of coupe2
1375–1425 for earlier senses “wicker basket, tub, cask”; 1890–95 for current senses; Middle English < Anglo-French co ( u ) pe, Old French coupe < Late Latin cuppa, Latin cūpa cask, tub, barrel; cf. cup
Origin of coupé3
1825–35; < French coupé ( coupé in defs. 1, 2 short for carrosse coupé “cut-off or shortened coach”), past participle of couper “to cut off,” verbal derivative of coup coup 1; cf. cope 1
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This relationship between price and lack of subtlety leaves me with the Amalfi—and the coupe, no less, not even the convertible Spider.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Mercedes-Benz unveiled its AMG GT four-door coupe, a high-end EV with 1,153 horsepower and a zero to 60 mph time of about two seconds.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
Among them: the rear quarter-lights are masked with graphics that suggest a coupe roofline hiding inside the hatch.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026
Back at Chainsaw the friends drink their iced lattes, they eat their beautiful chocolate milk tres leches in a coupe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026
It was a rusty brown 1936 Ford coupe with big bug-eyed headlights mounted on the fenders.
From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos
A limited-edition two-seat coupé will bridge Alfa Romeo from its internal combustion engine roots to an all-electric future.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2023
The Roma will be a 2+ coupé, meaning it has two small rear-seats, Ferrari said on Wednesday, without disclosing its price.
From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2019
From the side it looks like a stretched coupé, with long doors sitting under blacked-out pillars to create a "floating" roof.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 30, 2013
One elegant small carriage that appears in the street scene is a coupé made about 1860.
From New York Times ● Apr. 20, 2013
The word "sensuous" had the effect of further disquieting Tom but before he could invent a protest the coupé came to a stop and Daisy signalled us to draw up alongside.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The group’s members stood on a platform built on the back of a flatbed truck, playing about a dozen drums, including bass drums, congas and tenor drums known as coupés.
From New York Times ● Sep. 3, 2018
Now, this coupé is low and narrow enough, so that our condition reminded me slightly of the luckless fowls which I have sometimes seen riding to the Cincinnati market in coupés of about equal convenience.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Outside in the darkness, gray with whirling snowflakes, he saw the wet lamps of cabs shining, and he darted along the line of hansoms and coupés in frantic search for his own.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Stratton D. Brooks
In the crush of the Avenue was the note of home-coming, in taxicabs and coupés piled high with luggage and brown-faced children hanging at the windows, acclaiming familiar landmarks with piping cries.
From Making Money by Owen Johnson
In the latter's place we had purchased two smaller cars—both new, both of the same make, both coupés, both painted blue.
From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates
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