Trump

/tɹʌmp/ · noun

Meaning

(card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others..

Definitions by Sense

1. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
2. (card games) A playing card of that suit.
3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
4. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
5. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
6. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
7. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
8. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

Example Sentences

Diamonds were declared trump(s).

And now her Heart with Pleasure jumps, She scarce remembers what is Trumps.

He played an even higher trump.

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.

[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.

All hands voted Queequeg a noble trump; the captain begged his pardon.

Brooke was a trump to telegraph right off.

Alfred is a trump, I think you say.

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Word Forms

• trumps
• trumping
• trumped

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