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- French · borrowed fromcoupe-gorge
- English todaycoupe-gorge
Borrowed from French coupe-gorge (literally “cut-throat”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
coupe-gorge
Today it means: Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces. Full definition →
French coupe-gorge