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Trumped up
is always a great word to know.
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| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
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noun
Verb phrase1.
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.
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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Word Origin & History
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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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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