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trump

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What does trump mean?

noun

  1. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  2. A playing card of that suit.
  3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
More meanings (21)

noun

  1. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
  2. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
  3. A fart.
  4. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
  5. (archaic) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  6. (archaic) A trumpet.
  7. (dated) Synonym of Jew's harp.

verb

  1. To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
  2. To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
  3. To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  4. To supersede.
  5. To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
  6. To blow a trumpet.
  7. To fart.
  8. (dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
  2. A surname from English.
  3. A surname from German.
  4. Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).
  5. A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
  6. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
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IPA pronunciation

/tɹʌmp/

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I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who has proved himself throughout the most surprising trump.
Robert Louis StevensonTreasure IslandProject Gutenberg ebook #120
Though if proper excuse you can trump any, You may wind up a Limited Company, You cannot conveniently blow it up!
Arthur Sullivan; W. S. (William Schwenck) GilbertThe Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanProject Gutenberg ebook #808
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The dealer has the privilege of discarding one of his cards and taking up the trump--not showing, however, the one he discards.
Andrew SteinmetzThe Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims. Volume 1 (of 2)Project Gutenberg ebook #466
The bullfrogs trump to usher in the night, and the note of the whippoorwill is borne on the rippling wind from over the water.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
The noise of the hinge rang in his ears with something of the piercing and formidable sound of the trump of the Day of Judgment.
Victor HugoLes MisérablesTranslated by Isabel Florence HapgoodProject Gutenberg ebook #135