trump¹ Definition
trump (trump)
noun
- any playing card of a suit that ranks higher than any other suit during the playing of a hand: a trump can take any card of any other suit
- a suit of trumps
- any advantage held in reserve until needed
- Informal a fine person, good fellow, etc.
Etymology: altered < triumph
transitive verb
- to play a trump on (a trick, another card, etc.) when a trump was not led, often, specif., so as to take it thereby
- to surpass; outdo
intransitive verb
to play a trump when a trump was not led
trump¹ Idioms
trump up
to devise or make up (a charge against someone, an excuse, etc.) fraudulently
trump² Definition
trump (trump)
noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb
Archaic trumpet
Etymology: ME trumpe < OFr trompe < Frank *trumpa or OHG trumba, of echoic orig.
trump Usage Examples
Converse of object
- draw: She reaches a position where she has 12 tricks by drawing trumps.
- lead: Your partner leads a trump to your ace, what next?
- play: Let's face it, playing trumps is a fun way to learn about any sort of phenomena.
- hold: A third round of spades revealed that East now held the thirteenth trump.
- return: If you return a trump he's one trick short.
Adjective modifier
- donald: Made him somewhat name perfect for for donald trump achieve its own.
- top: Remember you can have top trumps on almost anything.
- last: Unable to reach dummy to draw West's last trump, he played a third heart.
- low: Now another low trump taken by West's K, East following low.
- high: For example, if your highest trump is the J, you are " without one " .
Modifies a noun
- plaza: And i'd say dessert only providing voice data trump plaza hotel.
- card: However, Ethernet had two more trump cards up its sleeve.
- trick: East, with his certain trump trick, doubles.
- suit: All seemed to depend on picking up the trump suit.
- correspondence: There's no Tarot trump correspondence for Hx 22 or 23 in Karen's system.
- honor: Here location of the top trump honor helps opener decide whether his suit will run in three no-trumps.
Modifying Another Word
- on: In 1969 they were exchanged with British spy Gerald Brooke ( some said convicted in Russia on trumped up charges ).
- still: The Zodiac has come and gone, yet in my opinion still trumps many newer devices.
- up: Community cause comes up trumps Heath Countryside Corridor ( HCC ) has been successful in buying their second parcel of land.
Followed by an intransitive particle
up: The false charges trumped up out of Ali Campbell's backside?
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