trumpet
IPA: trˈʌmpʌt
noun
- A musical instrument of the brass family, generally tuned to the key of B-flat; by extension, any type of lip-vibrated aerophone, most often valveless and not chromatic.
- Someone who plays the trumpet; a trumpeter.
- The cry of an elephant, or any similar loud cry.
- (figurative) One who praises, or propagates praise, or is the instrument of propagating it.
- A funnel, or short flaring pipe, used as a guide or conductor, as for yarn in a knitting machine.
- A kind of traffic interchange involving at least one loop ramp connecting traffic either entering or leaving the terminating expressway with the far lanes of the continuous highway.
- A powerful reed stop in organs, having a trumpet-like sound.
- Any of various flowering plants with trumpet-shaped flowers, for example, of the genus Collomia.
- (US, slang, often capitalized) A supporter of Donald Trump, especially a fervent one.
- (slang) A vocal political supporter of US President Donald Trump, especially online.
verb
- (intransitive) To sound loudly, be amplified
- (intransitive) To play the trumpet.
- (transitive, intransitive) Of an elephant, to make its cry.
- (transitive, intransitive) To give a loud cry like that of an elephant.
- (transitive) To proclaim loudly; to promote enthusiastically
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