ETYM French, fromL. colaphus a cuff, Greek.
(French) “stroke”; successful action; coup d’état. coup de grâce, finishing blow; fatal blow. coup de main, sudden violent onslaught. coup d’essai, experiment. coup d’état, sudden action whereby government is changed; short revolution, especially bloodless. coup d’oeil, swift survey or glance; what is thus seen. coup de soleil, sunstroke. coup de théâtre, sudden dramatic or sensational action.(Homonym: coo).
A brilliant and notable success. co-up.

ETYM French, from Spanish escapada escape, from escapar to escape; or French, from Italian scappata escape, escapade, from scappare to escape. see Escape.
Any carefree episode; SYN. lark.

ETYM Old Eng. strok, strook, strak, from striken. Related to Strike.
1. A light touch.
2. A light touch with the hands; SYN. stroking.
3. A single complete movement.
4. Any one of the repeated movements of the limbs and body used for locomotion in swimming or rowing.
5. A mark made by a writing implement (as in cursive writing).

ETYM Dutch trek a pull, or drawing, a trick, trekken to draw; akin to lg. trekken, Mid. High Germ. trecken, trechen, Dan. traekke, and OFries. trekka. Related to Track, Trachery, Trig, Trigger.
1. A cunning or deceitful action or device; SYN. fast one.
2. A period of work or duty.
3. An attempt to get one to do something foolish or imprudent.

1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); SYN. chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan.
2. Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of one in some way; SYN. hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery.

1. To touch lightly and with affection, with brushing motions; SYN. fondle, caress.
2. To treat gingerly or carefully
3. To be or act as the stroke.
4. To strike a ball with a smooth blow.

1. To declare void and nul; make ineffective.
2. To make up for; SYN. offset, set off.
3. Said of cheques or tickets: to invalidate.
4. To postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled; SYN. call off.
In mathematics, to simplify a fraction or ratio by dividing both numerator and denominator by the same number (which must be a common factor of both of them). For example, 5x/25 cancels to x/5 when divided top and bottom by 5.

1. To throw or cast away; SYN. fling, toss, toss out, toss away, chuck out, cast aside, dispose, throw out, cast out, throw away, cast away, put away.
2. To throw out a useless card or to fail to follow suit.

1. To let fall to the ground
2. To fall vertically
3. To go down in value
4. To leave or unload, esp. of passengers or cargo; SYN. set down, put down, unload.
5. To utter casually
6. To lose (said of games, in sports)
7. To stop pursuing or acting; SYN. knock off.
8. To terminate an association with
9. To give birth; used for animals
10. To change from one level to another

To pass by, as of time; SYN. lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along.

1. To apply paint to; coat with paint.
2. To make a painting of.
3. To make a painting.
4. To apply a liquid to; e.g., paint the gutters with linseed oil.

1. To cause to skip over a surface:; SYN. skip, skitter.
2. To coat with a layer; of liquids.
3. To read superficially; SYN. skim over.
4. To remove from the surface; SYN. skim off, cream off, cream.