Trump
Trump , noun
[Old English trumpe, trompe, French trompe; probably from Latin triumphare to triumph, to exult, hence, probably, to make a joyous sound or noise. See Triumph, v. i. & n., and compare 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.
The wakeful trump of doom.
Trump , intransitive verb
[Compare Old French tromper. See Trump a trumpet.]
To blow a trumpet. [Obsolete] — Wyclif (Matt. vi. 2)
Trump , noun
[A corruption of triumph, French triomphe. See Triumph, and compare 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.
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.
Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them.
Collocations (1)
To put to one's trumps or To put on one's trumps , to force to the last expedient, or to the utmost exertion.
Trump , intransitive verb
To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.
Trump , transitive verb
To play a trump card upon; to take with a trump card; as, she trumped the first trick.
Trump , transitive verb
[French tromper to deceive, in Old French, to blow a trumpet, se tromper de to mock. See Trump a trumpet.]
1.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive. [Obsolete]
To trick or trump mankind.
2.
To impose unfairly; to palm off.
Authors have been trumped upon us.
Collocations (1)
To trump up , to devise; to collect with unfairness; to fabricate; as, to trump up a charge.