Definitions for trump

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Spelling: [truhmp]

IPA: /trʌmp/

Trump is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in trump (mprtu).

Definitions for trump

noun

1. Cards. any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit. Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.
2. Informal. a fine person; brick.
3. a trumpet.
4. its sound.

Verb phrases

1. trump up, to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate:

verb (used with object)

1. Cards. to take with a trump.
2. to excel; surpass; outdo.

verb (used without object)

1. Cards. to play a trump. to take a trick with a trump.
2. to blow a trumpet.

Origin of trump

First recorded in 1520-30; unexplained variant of triumph

Examples for trump

He behaved like a trump to me once when I was in trouble; and I don't forget it.

"To hear what lies you could trump up," replied Kendal boldly.

In 2010, trump again said he was “being serious” about considering a run—this time as a Republican.

trump even gave Jackson a personal tour of the venue, with television cameras in tow.

Friendship is the trump card in the movement for equality, not etiology.

You are a trump, Lieutenant; sorry am I that I have no sister with which to return the compliment.

Yet he realized that if a trump card was to be played it must be then.

I am watching the sunrise from the 39th floor of the trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In August, trump filed a lawsuit to have his name removed from the casino and from the nearby, since-closed trump Plaza.

The prior's a trump, and as for the bolero, he would dance it.