coup stick

noun

A stick used by the Plains Indians of North America for touching the enemy in battle in order to count coup.

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Meanings

nouncoup stick (plural coup sticks)

plural coup sticks

  1. A stick used by the Plains Indians of North America for touching the enemy in battle in order to count coup.

    Then the lot of them rode him down for sport, striking him with their coup sticks.

    1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171
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APA

coup stick. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coup%20stick

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“coup stick.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coup%20stick. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “coup stick,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/coup%20stick.

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