Sekirov Dictionary

trump

/tɹʌmp/

noun 10
verb 8
forms 3
phrases 1

noun10

•
The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- Diamonds were declared trump(s).
•
A playing card of that suit.
- He played an even higher trump.
A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
•
(figurative) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe, And I in as good possibility as euer I was, I would lay a surer trumpe, Ere I would lose so faire a tricke. — 1593
(UK, informal) A fart.
The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
•
An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- Trionfo,[…]also a trump at cards, or the play called trump or ruff. — 1598
(old-fashioned) Synonym of Jew's harp.
•
(no longer used) A trumpet.
- In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible — 1611
•
(informal, no longer used) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- [W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON. — 1838

verb8

•
To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
•
To supersede.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
•
(UK, informal) To fart.
- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
- Who trumped?
•
(old-fashioned) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- Authors have been trumped upon us. — 1699
To blow a trumpet.

forms

trumped · trumping · trumps

Phrases with trump

trump up
To create falsely, to fabricate (particularly applied to accusations, (legal) charges or evidence).

This dictionary works without the internet: on your phone · in Chrome