(1) any master stroke;(2) [sometimes Trump coup] the shortening of one's trumps to enable the eventual lead of a plain-suit card to substitute for the lead of a trump to take a finesse;(3) more generally, any trump-shortening process aimed at creating a particular end-position.(4) (verb) to capture without loss or to reduce the trick-taking power of an opponent's trump holding by any combination of trump reduction and/or arranging effectively to lead a plain-suit card through that opponent in an ending.
one of a number of technical plays, most often used to refer to the "trump coup" in which a finesse in trumps is taken by leading a non-trump because one hand has no more trumps.
One of the simple, indirect, attacks, made in one motion by lifting the point over the opponent's point (in the high line), and extending the arm and weapon, threatening the opponent's target.