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COUPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does coupe mean?
• COUPE (noun)
The noun COUPE has 1 sense:
1. a car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment
Familiarity information: COUPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A car with two doors and front seats and a luggage compartment
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("coupe" is a kind of...):
auto; automobile; car; machine; motorcar (a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine)
Context examples
Will Miss Amy ride in her coop (coupe), and use all them lovely silver dishes that's stored away over yander?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I thought you had too much pride and sense to truckle to any mortal woman just because she wears French boots and rides in a coupe, said Jo, who, being called from the tragic climax of her novel, was not in the best mood for social enterprises.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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