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coupe

UK/kuːp/US/kup/
nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,932 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: coupes

A coupe is a low sporty car with only two doors. A two-door coupe, a sports coupe, drive a coupe.

The name comes from a cut-down carriage, and the point has always been looks over practicality: less headroom in the back and a smaller boot. Manufacturers now sell four-door cars as coupes, which annoys people who know what the word means.

Vauxford · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of coupe

  1. 1nouncoupeA low sporty car with only two doors.B2+

    “He swapped his family car for a sporty little coupe with barely any room in the back.”

coupe is a car.

Where it comes from

French coupe means cut, from a carriage described as coupe, cut short. English dropped the accent.

  1. French

    coupe

  2. English, today

    coupe

Borrowed from French coupe. a doublet of cup and hive and keeve.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Vehicles & Machines

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coupe in the wild

  • The fourth generation introduced the hardtop coupe convertible.

    Infiniti G Line

  • A coupe SUV is a type of sport utility vehicle with a sloping rear roofline similar to those of fastbacks or Kammbacks.

    Coupe SUV

  • Although the term "coupe" traditionally refers to a two- or three-door body style with a truncated or sloping rear roofline, most coupe SUVs are equipped with five doors.

    Coupe SUV

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.