coupe-gorge

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French coupe-gorge (literally “cut-throat”).

Noun

coupe-gorge (plural coupe-gorges)

1. (military) Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “coupe-gorge”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Etymology

From couper +‎ gorge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kup.ɡɔʁʒ/

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Noun

coupe-gorge m (plural coupe-gorges)

1. no-go zone, deathtrap, cutthroat area, dangerous area, ghetto

Further reading

• “coupe-gorge”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.