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noun

Trump n. 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 n.

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.

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

A good fellow; an excellent person. (Slang) "Alfred is a trump, I think you say."

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." "Put the housekeeper to her trumps to accommodate them."

verb

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

Trump v. t.

To trick, or impose on; to deceive. (Obs.) "To trick or trump mankind."

To impose unfairly; to palm off. "Authors have been trumped upon us."

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

Trump v. i. To blow a trumpet. (Obs.)

Trump v. i. (past & past part. trumped; pres. part. trumping) To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led.

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"Trump" Quotes from Famous Books

... come With all its marshalled honours, trump and drum, To proffer you the captaincy of some Resounding exploit, that shall fill Man's pulses with commemorative thrill, And be a banner to far battle days For truths unrisen upon untrod ways, What would your answer be, O heart ...

— Artemis to Actaeon and Other Worlds • Edith Wharton

... he said in a dazed, dreary sort of way, 'I'll see, but I want to play the last card I have in my hand before I go. It's a trump card perhaps.' ...

— Cinderella in the South - Twenty-Five South African Tales • Arthur Shearly Cripps

... and Christ has made the atonement and fitted the mansions in the New Jerusalem, then they will be his chosen ones to execute the "judgment written." After this, in the order of events, the Lord Jesus "will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God," &c. When God speaks from Jerusalem, then, I believe the "wise will understand" how long it will be before Jesus comes. "The times and seasons are with the Father." I believe that the Scriptures most clearly teach Christ's second coming at the feast ...

— A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath • Joseph Bates

... she lives. I marconied her an hour after he'd said that he would come to us after London, and we'd begin our motor tour from Carlisle. 'Twas only taking Time by the forelock to tell him we had been invited. It was bad luck poor Mrs. Keeling being ill when she got my wire, and she really was a trump to turn out and go ...

— The Heather-Moon • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... lips where smiles went out and in; There was no guessing his kith and kin: And nobody could enough admire The tall man and his quaint attire. Quoth one: "It's as my great-grandsire, Starting up at the trump of doom's tone, Had walked this ...

— The New McGuffey Fourth Reader • William H. McGuffey

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