trump meaning
EN[tɹʌmp] [-ʌmp]US
WTrump
- A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its normal rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit - these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits.
EN Trump
- NounPLtrumps
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- Diamonds were declared trump(s).
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- He played an even higher trump.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- (in the plural) The major arcana of the tarot.
- A card of the major arcana.
- (obsolete) A trumpet.
- (slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) Flatulence.
- (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- VerbSGtrumpsPRtrumpingPT, PPtrumped
- (transitive, card games) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- (dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- (transitive) To supersede.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, slang, Britain, childish, vulgar) To flatulate.
- And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.
- (transitive, card games) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- The relatively low-key Mr. Murdoch, who would prefer an ink-stained newsroom to a gold-plated Trump penthouse, was turned off by Mr. Trump’s glitziness and braggadocio, friends said.
- In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
- His electoral "campaign" to date has included attempts to trump up criminal charges against his opponents.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
- And so, at trick five, when South ruffed a diamond with the board's queen of clubs, East, having a discard to make, found a gorgeous one— he underruffed with seven of trumps!
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of trump in English Dictionary
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- en trumpet
- en trumpery
- en trumpeter
- en trumps
- en trumpeting
Source: Wiktionary