Trump

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Games A suit in card games that outranks all other suits for the duration of a hand. Often used in the plural.
  • n. Games A card of such a suit.
  • n. Games A trump card.
  • n. A key resource to be used at an opportune moment.
  • n. Informal A reliable or admirable person.
  • v. Games To take (a card or trick) with a trump.
  • v. To get the better of (an adversary or competitor, for example) by using a crucial, often hidden resource.
  • verb-intransitive. Games To play a trump.
  • phrasal-verb. trump up To devise fraudulently: trumped up a charge of conspiracy.
  • n. A trumpet.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • n. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  • n. A playing card of that suit.
  • n. Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  • n. An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  • v. (card games) To play a trump (on a card of another suit).
  • v. (card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump
  • v. To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  • v. To supersede.
  • v. (UK) To flatulate.
  • n. A trumpet.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.
  • verb-intransitive. To blow a trumpet.
  • n. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.
  • n. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
  • n. A good fellow; an excellent person.
  • verb-intransitive. To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
  • v. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card.
  • v. To trick, or impose on; to deceive.
  • v. To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A tube; pipe.
  • n. A musical wind-instrument; a trumpet: as, the trump of doom; the last trump (the summons to final judgment).
  • n. A trumpeter; a herald. See trumpet, 3.
  • n. A jews'-harp.
  • To blow a trumpet.
  • To impose upon; dupe; deceive; gull.
  • To obtrude or impose unfairly.
  • n. One card of that suit which for the time being outranks the other suits, and which is generally determined by turning up the last card in dealing, but in some games by choice or otherwise; also, the suit which thus outranks the others (a loose use, for the plural trumps).
  • n. An old game at cards, also called ruff (see ruff), the original of the modern game of whist. See triumph, 7.
  • n. A person upon whom one can depend; one who spontaneously does the right thing in any emergency; a good fellow.
  • To put a trump-card upon; take with a trump.
  • In card-playing, to play a trumpcard when another suit has been led.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
  • v. proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
  • v. get the better of
  • n. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
  • v. play a trump
  • v. produce a sound as if from a trumpet
  • n. (card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
  • Equivalent
    Verb Form
    trumped    trumping    trumps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    playing card    announce    denote    sound    go    suit   
    Variant
    ruff   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    deceive    outsmart   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Hump    bump    chump    clump    crump    dump    frump    grump    gump    hump   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    trumpet    falco    fife    gong