trump

noun

1. 1

   The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

   Diamonds were declared trump(s).

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

2. 2

   A playing card of that suit.

   He played an even higher trump.

3. 3

   figurativeSomething 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.

4. 4

   archaicAn 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.

   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.

5. 5

   An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

   There be many one that breaketh this carde,[…]and playeth there with oftentimes at the blinde trompe, wherby they be no winners but great losers

   Trionfo,[…]also a trump at cards, or the play called trump or ruff.

6. 6

   A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

verb

1. 1

   To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

   He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.

   He lost his money at whist after dinner, and actually trumped his partner’s highest spade.

2. 2

   To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

3. 3

   To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

   to trick or trump mankind

   Wren, who had hoped to make his name with his discovery, immediately put De Corpore aside, hoping that in silence his failure would disappear. He was forced to think again about his future and resolved to seek new territory within the New Philosophy which he could call his own, rather than face the embarrassment of being trumped for a second time.

4. 4

   datedTo impose unfairly; to palm off.

   Authors have been trumped upon us.

5. 5

   To supersede.

   In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

   The phrase was, and remains, a double-edged sword: a testament to the hard-working and hard-living citizens of the Crescent City and an indicator of the “ah, whatever” shrug hanging over its corrupt politics, its ramshackle infrastructure and its belief that partying trumps all.

6. 6

   To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

noun

1. 1

   archaicA 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

   Sound, sound the trump of fame,

2. 2

   A fart.

3. 3

   The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

verb

1. 1

   To blow a trumpet.

2. 2

   To fart.

   And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

   Who trumped?

noun

1. 1

   datedSynonym of Jew's harp.

Forms

plural

trumps

past tense

trumped

past participle

trumped

present participle

trumping

third person singular

trumps