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trumping up

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trump

1  [truhmp]
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–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 with object)
3. Cards. to take with a trump.
4. to excel; surpass; outdo.
–verb (used without object)
5. Cards.
a. to play a trump.
b. to take a trick with a trump.
—Verb phrase
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.
Origin:
1520–30; unexplained var. of triumph

Related forms:
trumpless, adjective
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Word Origin & History

trump  (n.2)
"trumpet," 1297, 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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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