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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
trump
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
card
▪ We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
▪ That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.
▪ This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
▪ In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.
▪ And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
▪ Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
▪ That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.
▪ The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
■ VERB
come
▪ And a dream come true ... The advert for grandparents that came up trumps.
▪ You've come up trumps, Derek.
play
▪ We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
▪ A desperate Nixon then played his trump.
▪ And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
▪ In return, it promised not to play its one trump card - water.
▪ The full hand was as shown below: - Note what happens if declarer plays 2 rounds of trumps before proceeding.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
trump/best/strongest card
▪ And perhaps it was time to play the trump card up his sleeve.
▪ In the struggle for development, every economy has certain advantages or trump cards.
▪ Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
▪ That night, though, our sincerity was our trump card.
▪ That was why Gorbachev wanted to negotiate-and that is why, in my opinion, President Reagan was holding the trump card.
▪ The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
▪ This was one of the trump cards of News International in its dispute with the print workers in 1986-87.
▪ We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Spades are trump.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Adversity is the regime's natural habitat, and in dealing with its own populace its one moral trump.
▪ In return, it promised not to play its one trump card - water.
▪ Parents must recognize that if a child does not want to do homework, the child holds the trump card.
▪ The citizens of Hebron, by contrast, hold all the trump cards.
▪ We had beaten him, but he played a final trump card.
▪ Why, produce her trump card.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
up
▪ The entire thing was entirely trumped up and she was absolved because of the publicity we gave the case.
▪ Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.
▪ The offer may trump up business for other companies, as well.
■ NOUN
charge
▪ Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Benckiser trumped Green's bid to buy the company.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A family's decision for a woman to marry trumps her own decision to participate politically.
▪ Anxious to avoid indictment, peasants trumped up charges against their neighbors, while others accused their rivals of imaginary crimes.
▪ In the contest for national ascendancy, motherhood appeared to be trumping arms-bearing.
▪ That easily trumped the 23 percent winnings turned in by the overall market.
▪ That you have trumped this up.
▪ When state department analysts are asked for their opinions, however, pragmatism will probably trump ideology.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trump

Trump \Trump\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Trumped; p. pr. & vb. n. Trumping.] To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

Trump

Trump \Trump\, v. t. To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.

Trump

Trump \Trump\, n. [OE. trumpe, trompe, F. trompe; probably fr. L. triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and cf. Trombone, Tromp, Trump at cards, Trumpery, Trumpet, Trunk a proboscis.] A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.
--1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.

The wakeful trump of doom.
--Milton.

Trump

Trump \Trump\, v. t. [F. tromper to deceive, in OF., to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]

  1. To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obs.] ``To trick or trump mankind.''
    --B. Jonson.

  2. To impose unfairly; to palm off.

    Authors have been trumped upon us.
    --C. Leslie.

    To trump up, to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.

Trump

Trump \Trump\, v. i. [Cf. OF. tromper. See Trump a trumpet.] To blow a trumpet. [Obs.]
--Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2).

Trump

Trump \Trump\, n. [A corruption of triumph, F. triomphe. See Triumph, and cf. Trump a trumpet.]

  1. A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

  2. An old game with cards, nearly the same as whist; -- called also ruff.
    --Decker.

  3. A good fellow; an excellent person. [Slang]

    Alfred is a trump, I think you say.
    --Thackeray.

    To put to one's trumps, or To put on one's trumps, to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.

    But when kings come so low as to fawn upon philosophy, which before they neither valued nor understood, it is a sign that fails not, they are then put to their last trump.
    --Milton.

    Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them.
    --W. Irving.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
trump

"surpass, beat," 1580s, from trump (n.). Related: Trumped; trumping.

trump

"playing card of a suit ranking above others," 1520s, alteration of triumph (n.), which also was the name of a card game.

trump

"fabricate, devise," 1690s, from trump "deceive, cheat" (1510s), from Middle English trumpen (late 14c.), from Old French tromper "to deceive," of uncertain origin. Apparently from se tromper de "to mock," from Old French tromper "to blow a trumpet." Brachet explains this as "to play the horn, alluding to quacks and mountebanks, who attracted the public by blowing a horn, and then cheated them into buying ...." The Hindley Old French dictionary has baillier la trompe "blow the trumpet" as "act the fool," and Donkin connects it rather to trombe "waterspout," on the notion of turning (someone) around. Connection with triumph also has been proposed. Related: Trumped; trumping. Trumped up "false, concocted" first recorded 1728.

trump

"trumpet," c.1300, from Old French trompe "long, tube-like musical wind instrument" (12c.), cognate with Provençal tromba, Italian tromba, all probably from a Germanic source (compare Old High German trumpa, Old Norse trumba "trumpet"), of imitative origin.

Wiktionary
trump

Etymology 1 n. 1 (context US in the singular cards English) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. 2 (context British in the plural cards English) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. 3 (context cards English) A playing card of that suit. 4 (context figuratively English) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. 5 (context colloquial now rare English) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg. 6 An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff. 7 (context in the plural English) The major arcana of the tarot 8 A card of the major arcana vb. 1 (context transitive cards English) To play a trump (on a card of another suit). 2 (context intransitive cards English) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump 3 (context transitive English) To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor. 4 (context dated English) To impose unfairly; to palm off. 5 (context transitive English) To supersede. Etymology 2

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A trumpet. 2 (context slang UK childish vulgar English) flatulence. vb. 1 To blow a trumpet. 2 (context intransitive slang UK childish vulgar English) To flatulate.

WordNet
trump
  1. n. a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps [syn: trump card]

  2. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves [syn: cornet, horn, trumpet]

trump
  1. v. produce a sound as if from a trumpet

  2. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition" [syn: outdo, outflank, best, scoop]

  3. play a trump [syn: ruff]

  4. proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare [syn: trump out]

Wikipedia
Trump (disambiguation)

Trump or trumps is a subset of the cards in many trick-taking games.

Trump may also refer to:

Trump (magazine)

Trump was a glossy magazine of satire and humor, mostly in the forms of comics features and short stories. It was edited by Harvey Kurtzman and published by Hugh Hefner, with only two issues produced in 1957. The first issue appeared in January 1957. The magazine's mascot was a trumpeter herald in the style of John Tenniel's Alice in Wonderland illustrations.

Kurtzman began work on Trump shortly after leaving Mad following a break with its publisher William M. Gaines. Mad also lost two of its top cartoonists in the dispute's aftermath, when Will Elder and Jack Davis chose to follow Kurtzman. Wally Wood was also recruited for the Trump team in the form of an either-or option, but he chose to stay at Mad. Other notable artists, including Al Jaffee and Arnold Roth, appeared in Trump.

Trump

A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its normal rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the term trump card can refer to any sort of action, authority, or policy which automatically prevails over all others.

Trump (comics)

Trump is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

Trump (surname)

Trump is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Trump (video gamer)

Jeffrey Shih ( born June 28, 1987), also known by his username Trump or TrumpSC, is an American professional video game player who streams Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and previously Starcraft II. He currently plays for Team SoloMid. Prior to joining TSM, Shih grew his channel into one of the most popular Hearthstone streams on the game streaming website twitch.tv. He is one of the top Hearthstone competitors in North America. He formerly played Starcraft II for gaming groups Team Legion and Vega Squadron.

Usage examples of "trump".

What should I tellen of the royalty Of this marriage, or which course goes beforn, Who bloweth in a trump or in an horn?

Even to Hassell the Poles, who were threatened with imminent attack on trumped - up Nazi charges, were not supposed to ask questions.

He could discern that Kelk was holding a trump card that he had not yet played.

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In the meanwhile, anxious to preserve his influence with the border tribes, and to impress the Indian Government with the fact that he could be a powerful foe, he keeps Umra Khan as a trump card, to be played when the occasion arises.

CCC-IRU 205, had always held the trump cards of being able to override his control of all their equipment, including the modifications to his own body, and of having sole control of the thermite charge in the base of his skull that would blow his head off if he attempted to surrender or to otherwise seriously disobey the orders of the Command.

I know what you want, though, and if you will let me send back Trumper if I have the feeling I cannot bear him any longer in my lesson, I will do the drawings for you myself.

As for Trumper, I propose to deal with that youth in a manner which will stay with him for the rest of his days.

How would it be if I made some reason of my own not to send Master Trumper to you at all?

Beck of Kentucky, Randall and Woodward of Pennsylvania, Marshall of Illinois, Brooks, Wood, Potter, Slocum, and Cox, of New York, Kerr, Niblack, Voorhees, and Holman of Indiana, Eldridge of Wisconsin, Van Trump and Morgan of Ohio, unitedly presented a strong array of Parliamentary ability.

Fresh data trumped or bypassed the arteriosclerotic pyramids of power and information flow the Agency had erected, all quite automatically, following its standard crisis-management directives.

Finally, the attorney general lost his patience and issued an ultimatum, threatening to reveal to the world his trump card-the full details of their secret negotiations to slip Meredith into the university, a move that both men knew could destroy Barnett politically with his pro-segregation supporters.

In an age when assertion tends to overwhelm evidence, when claim so easily trumps fact, they know precisely where the breakpoints lie.

All they possessed, through a misreading of Kuhn, was a pseudo-attempt to trump normal science and replace it with their ideologically favorite reading of the Kosmos.

God, of course the Immies had been waiting for a chance like this, his two trump cards together in one place.