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Definitions and meaning of trump

trump

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹʌmp/
• (some accents) IPA^(key): [t͡ʃɹʌmp]
• Rhymes: -ʌmp
• Homophone: Trump

Etymology 1

Possibly from French triomphe (“triumph”) or Old French triumphe. If so, it is a doublet of triumph and thriambus. Compare German Trumpf.

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Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
2. (card games) A playing card of that suit.

3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
4. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
5. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
6. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

Usage notes

For the top-ranking suit as a whole, American usage favors the singular trump and British usage the plural trumps.

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Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
2. (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
3. (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
   • , Act 1, Scene 3

     to trick or trump mankind

4. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
5. (transitive) To supersede.

   In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

6. (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

Synonyms

• (to play a trump card on another suit): ruff
• (to get the better of a competitor): outsmart

Coordinate terms

• (to play a trump card on another suit): underruff, overruff

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Etymology 2

From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”) from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa, *trumba (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin. Doublet of tulumba and tromp.

Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (archaic) A trumpet.
2. (UK, euphemistic, slang) Flatulence.
3. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

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Verb

trump (third-person singular simple present trumps, present participle trumping, simple past and past participle trumped)

1. To blow a trumpet.
2. (intransitive, UK, euphemistic, slang) To flatulate.

   And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.

   Who trumped?

Etymology 3

Shortening of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trump, jeu tromp, jeu trompe (a trump, or toy, to play with).

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.

Further reading

• Trump in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)