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trump

[truhmp]

noun

Cards.

any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.

Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.

Informal. a fine person; brick.

verb (used with object)

Cards. to take with a trump.

to excel; surpass; outdo.

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verb (used without object)

Cards.

to play a trump.

to take a trick with a trump.

Verb phrase

trump up, to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate: Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.

Origin:
1520–30; unexplained variant of triumph

Related forms

trump·less, adjective

Example Sentences

Trump and two newspapers over what he called false, racist.

Personal desires and aspirations seem to trump any concern for the greater good.

Perhaps it was a recognition that he would never trump his youthful discovery.

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Trump and two newspapers over what he called false, racist.

Personal desires and aspirations seem to trump any concern for the greater good.

Perhaps it was a recognition that he would never trump his youthful discovery.

The new find may even trump the superstar fossil of the same species:.

Why subjective anecdotes often trump objective data.

Bid whist is similar to spades, except that players can call the trump suit.

It's where brain turns into brawn, electronics trump athletic prowess and the arena is heavy not with.

Trump calling for reinstatement of the death penalty grew out of the.

My belief is that what is fair should trump the danger of an un-collegial reaction by the other professor.

In space travel, as in politics, domestic policy should usually trump grandiose foreign adventures.

Targeted investments can trump a region's geographic disadvantages.

The designers must have thought it would be cool to trump function and use black paint for the markings on the black inset dials.

University lawyers often bump up against an athletics world where speed and money trump legal deliberation.

Unfortunately, state law does not trump federal law.

Although vascular-recognition systems are still relatively new, they promise to trump fingerprint-based biometrics in a.

Life-support systems and research gear trump dishwashers and portable electronics.

And fair enough, if your values trump your job, then change jobs or work in a sector where your values are not in conflict.

In the more backward parts of the country, personality and patronage can still trump ideology and organisation.

Data may trump sentiment when those with no sentiment are the producers.

However, the proliferation of handheld devices would appear to trump that solution.

The cost issues will trump any dissent about the quality of the process.

Many governments, particularly poor and despotic ones, argue that national sovereignty should always trump humanitarian issues.

Reason should always trump the mythology of current religions.

His universal renown is a continuing reminder that brains and creativity can trump traditional notions of coolness.

And is too often used as a kind of trump card when it's nothing of the sort.

Indians complain that social connections trump hard work.

Basic economics will often trump environmental considerations.

Lionhead still has a trump card to play though in the shape of their enhanced co-operative game play.

That's a trump card to put an end to debate, not an argument.

It does not claim that business interests or moral values trump the scientific consensus.

The problem is that headlines on today's pump prices trump the revelations of yesterday's in-depth reporting.

But now, armed with a scanner, two people totally biased and loaded with prejudice try to trump up these parroting as plagiarism.

Real measurements trump correlations and computer models not some of the time, but every time.

Landsberg hopes to trump the standard model in grander style.

Methane can probably trump all other climate factors when enough of it gets loose.

Your personal politics, and environmentalism, should not trump truth.

Ideological and religious background can trump all education, through mental filters of various kinds.

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noun

a trumpet.

its sound.

verb (used without object)

to blow a trumpet.

Origin:
1250–1300; (noun) Middle English trompe < Old French < Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet; (v.) Middle English trompen < Old French tromper, derivative of trompe

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World English Dictionary

trump¹ (trʌmp)

—n
1.	Also called: trump card
	a. any card from the suit chosen as trumps
	b. this suit itself; trumps
2.	Also called: trump card a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc
3.	informal a fine or reliable person

—vb
4.	to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)
5.	(tr) to outdo or surpass

[C16: variant of triumph]

'trumpless¹

—*adj*

trump² (trʌmp)

—n
1.	a trumpet or the sound produced by one
2.	the last trump the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment

—vb
3.	(intr) to produce a sound upon or as if upon the trumpet
4.	(tr) to proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
5.	slang (Brit) (intr) to expel intestinal gas through the anus

[C13: from Old French trompe, from Old High German trumpa trumpet; compare trombone]

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Word Origin & History

trump

"playing card of a suit ranking above others," 1529, alteration of triumph, name of a card game. The verb meaning "surpass, beat" is attested from 1586.

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trump

"fabricate, devise," 1695, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1513), from M.E. trumpen (late 14c.), from O.Fr. tromper "deceive," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a verb meaning "to blow a trumpet." Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.

trump

"trumpet," c.1300, from O.Fr. trompe "long, tube-like musical wind instrument" (12c.), cognate with Prov. tromba, It. tromba, all probably from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. trumpa and O.N. trumba "trumpet"), of imitative origin.

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Idioms & Phrases

trump

In addition to the idioms beginning with trump, also see hold all the aces (trumps); turn up trumps.