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trump 1
(trŭmp)n.
1. Games
a. often trumps A suit in card games that outranks all other suits for the duration of a hand.
b. A card of such a suit.
c. A trump card.
2. A key resource to be used at an opportune moment.
3. Informal A reliable or admirable person.
v. trumped, trump·ing, trumps
v.tr.
1. Games To take (a card or trick) with a trump.
2. To get the better of (an adversary or competitor, for example) by using a crucial, often hidden resource.
v.intr. Games
Phrasal Verb: To play a trump.
trump up
To devise fraudulently: trumped up a charge of conspiracy.
[Alteration of triumph.]
trump 2
(trŭmp)n.
A trumpet.
[Middle English trompe, from Old French; see trumpet.]
trump
(trʌmp)n
1. (Card Games)
a. any card from the suit chosen as trumps
b. this suit itself; trumps
2. Also called: trump card a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc
3. informal a fine or reliable person
vb
4. (Card Games) to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)
5. (tr) to outdo or surpass
[C16: variant of triumph]
ˈtrumpless adj
trump
(trʌmp)n
1. (Instruments) a trumpet or the sound produced by one
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the last trump the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
vb
3. (Music, other) (intr) to produce a sound upon or as if upon the trumpet
4. (Music, other) (tr) to proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
5. (intr) slang Brit to expel intestinal gas through the anus
[C13: from Old French trompe, from Old High German trumpa trumpet; compare trombone]
trump1
(trʌmp)n.
1.
a. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
b. Often, trumps. (used with a sing. v.) the suit itself.
2. Informal. a fine person; brick.
v.t. 3. to take with a trump.
4. to excel; surpass; outdo.
v.i. 5.
a. to play a trump.
b. to take a trick with a trump.
6. trump up, to devise or invent (an accusation, excuse, etc.), esp. deceitfully.
[1520–30; unexplained variant of triumph]
trump2
(trʌmp)n., v. Literary. n.
1. a trumpet.
2. its sound.
v.i. 3. to blow a trumpet.
[1250–1300; Middle English trompe (n.) < Old French < Germanic; compare Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet]
trump
Past participle: trumped
Gerund: trumping
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Noun | 1. | ![]() playing card - one of a pack of cards that are used to play card games |
2. | trump - (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand; "clubs were declared trumps"; "a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led" suit - playing card in any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each set has its own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is trumps?" | |
3. | ![]() brass instrument, brass - a wind instrument that consists of a brass tube (usually of variable length) that is blown by means of a cup-shaped or funnel-shaped mouthpiece serpent - an obsolete bass cornet; resembles a snake | |
Verb | 1. | ![]() |
2. | ![]() beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game" outmaneuver, outmanoeuvre, outsmart - defeat by more skillful maneuvering; "The English troops outmaneuvered the Germans"; "My new supervisor knows how to outmaneuver the boss in most situations" | |
3. | ![]() overtrump - play a trump higher than (one previously played) to the trick crossruff - trump alternately in two hands | |
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trump
trump
nounSomething, especially something held in reserve, that gives one a decisive advantage:
Informal: clincher.
Idiom: ace in the hole.
Translations
وَرَقَةٌ رابِحَه في وَرق اللعبيأخُذ ورقَةً رابِحَة من أوراق اللعب
truimftrumftrumfovattrumfy
trumftrumfe
valttivalttikortti
aduaduval üttromfütõkártya
tromptrompa
koziriskoziriuoti
trumpistrumpot
tromftromfovaťtromfový
adut
kozkoz oynamak
trump
1n (Cards, fig) → Trumpf m; spades are trumps → Pik ist Trumpf; what’s trumps? → was ist Trumpf?; to hold all the trumps (fig) → alle Trümpfe in der Hand halten; he’s absolutely trumps (dated inf) → er ist große Klasse (inf); to come or turn up trumps (Brit inf) → sich als Sieger erweisen
vt (Cards) → stechen; (fig) → übertrumpfen
trump
2trump
(tramp) noun in some card games, any card of a suit which has been declared to rank higher than the other suits. This time, hearts are trumps; (also adjective) a trump card.
verb to defeat (an ordinary card) by playing a card from the trump suit. He trumped (my king) with a heart.