trump
IPA: trˈʌmp
noun
- (card games) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
- (card games) A playing card of that suit.
- (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
- (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
- An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
- A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
- (archaic) A trumpet.
- (UK, euphemistic, slang) Flatulence.
- The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
- (dated, music) Synonym of Jew's harp.
- A surname from German.
- Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality and former president of the United States of America (2017-2021).
verb
- (transitive, card games) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
- (intransitive, card games) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
- (transitive) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
- (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
- (transitive) To supersede.
- (transitive) To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
- To blow a trumpet.
- (intransitive, UK, euphemistic, slang) To flatulate.
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