Definitions for trumps

trumps trump

Spelling: [truhmp]
IPA: /trʌmp/

Trumps is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in trumps (mprstu).

Definitions for trumps

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 trumps

First recorded in 1520-30; unexplained variant of triumph

Examples for trumps

To be fair, though, Pratt does have one talent that trumps us all.

You mean—no matter—I suppose the luckiest hand is not all trumps!

Or maybe not: many Americans are fed up with the adherence to ideology that trumps compromise in modern-day Washington.

For trumps, Hiltons, or Cuomos, passing power or money onto the next generation requires no more than time and effort.

If she had the ace of trumps in her hand at whist, she wouldn't say anything, child.

But de Quadra held the trumps, and was not easily intimidated.

In his Ayn Rand fantasy world, “freedom” trumps everything, including civilization, nation, patriotism, industry, and culture.

And how long do you give your trumps to sound before your Millennium dawns?

For much of our conversation, the one topic that trumps all others is this: Joey Lawrence really wants to be a movie star.

"I offer you no violence," said the Admiral, smiling, as only the man who holds the trumps can smile.

Word Value for trumps
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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