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French
Etymology
Imitative.
Pronunciation
Interjection
couac
- noise of a crow. caw, squawk, croak
Noun
couac m (plural couacs)
- (music) false note
2019, Alain Damasio, chapter 5, in Les furtifs [The Stealthies], La Volte, →ISBN:À l’entendre, on dirait que chaque couac et chaque vrille, chaque onde, chaque stridence qu’elle tire délibérément de l’instrument, et qu’elle projette dans tout le volume, rageuse, sans ordre, hachée, elle l’extirpe de sa colère intérieure […]- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (figurative) joke in bad taste
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