trump up
noun
1.
Cards.
a.
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.
b.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
2.
Informal. a fine person; brick.
verb (used without object)
5.
Cards.
a.
to play a trump.
b.
to take a trick with a trump.
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6.
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.
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trump1 (trʌmp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —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 | |
| '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 | |
| trump up | |
| —vb | |
| (tr, adverb) to concoct or invent (a charge, accusation, etc) so as to deceive or implicate someone | |
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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.
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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Slang Dictionary
trump (sth) up definition
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Idioms & Phrases
trump up
Concoct fraudulently, fabricate, as in They trumped up a charge of conspiracy, or She had trumped up another excuse for not doing the work. This expression, first recorded in 1695, uses trump in the sense of "devise fraudulently," a usage otherwise obsolete.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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