trump

trump
[[t]trʌ̱mp[/t]]
trumps, trumping, trumped
1) N-UNCOUNT-COLL In a game of cards, trumps is the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game.

Hearts are trumps.

...the ace of trumps.

2) N-COUNT In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps.

He played a trump.

3) VERB If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.

[V n] The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan...

[V n] The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank has trumped Lloyds by raising its offer.

4) PHRASE: poss PHR Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.

In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card...

She could threaten to play her trump card, an autobiography of embarrassing disclosures.

5) PHRASE: V inflects If you say that someone came up trumps, you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to. [BRIT]

Sylvester Stallone has come up trumps at the US box office with his new movie Cliffhanger.


English dictionary. 2008.

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