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  1. noun [ C ] uk / ˈpʊtʃ.ɪst / us / ˈpʊtʃ.ɪst / a person who takes part in a putsch (= an attempt to remove a government by force) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Taking action against people in power. anarchist. angry young man.

  2. Jun 8, 2017 · noun. putsch· ist ˈpu̇-chist. : one who takes part in a putsch. Examples of putschist in a Sentence. Recent Examples on the WebThe Borsa Istanbul fired 120 staff members thought to favor the putschists after three people were gunned down here on that fateful night last July.—Isobel Finkel, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2017.

  3. noun. ˈpu̇ch. : a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government. Did you know? In its native Swiss German, putsch originally meant "knock" or "thrust," but these days both German and English speakers use it to refer to the kind of government overthrow also known as a coup d'état or coup.

  4. putschist in British English. (ˈpʊtʃɪst ) noun. 1. a person taking part in a putsch. adjective. 2. of or relating to putschists. Collins English Dictionary.

  5. noun. someone who believes in, or who is involved in, bringing about political change by overthrowing a government. adjective. relating to people who believe in or who are involved in an attempt to overthrow a government.

  6. noun [ C ] uk / pʊtʃ / us / pʊtʃ / Add to word list. an attempt to remove a government by force. Synonyms. coup. takeover. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Taking action against people in power. anarchist. angry young man. anti-apartheid. anti-state. bring. insurgency. insurrection. level up phrasal verb. mutineer. mutinous. revolt.

  7. 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.