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Trump   /trəmp/   Listen
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.  
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.
3.
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.  
1.
To trick, or impose on; to deceive. (Obs.) "To trick or trump mankind."
2.
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



... seen that Religion and Liberty—the heroes and the martyrs—are united in one cause. After that time, words are idle; action must begin. By this crucifix I pledge my faith, on this blade I devote my life, to the regeneration of Rome! And you (then no need for mask or mantle!), when the solitary trump is heard, when the solitary horseman is seen,—you, swear to rally round the standard of the Republic, and resist—with heart and hand, with life and soul, in defiance of death, and in hope of redemption—the arms of ...
— Rienzi • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... my Heavenly Father, that when the last trump sounds, and my name is called, I may stand close by your side, to answer to the call." Probably many of her friends and correspondents might contribute facts and incidents in Harriet's life quite as interesting ...
— Harriet, The Moses of Her People • Sarah H. Bradford
... Bertoldo great, Fit mother for that pearl, and before The tender imp was weaned from the teat, The Princess Maud him took, in Virtue's lore She brought him up fit for each worthy feat, Till of these wares the golden trump he hears, That soundeth glory, ...
— Jerusalem Delivered • Torquato Tasso
... Farewel the tranquil mind. Farewel content; Farewel the plumed troops and the big war, That make ambition virtue! Oh farewel! Farewel the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife, The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war: And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats Th' immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit, ...
— Lectures on the English Poets - Delivered at the Surrey Institution • William Hazlitt
... shore; A sanguine stain the silver moon o'erspread; Darkness the circle of the sun invade; From inmost heaven incessant thunders roll, And the strong echo bound from pole to pole. When, lo, a mighty trump, one half conceal'd In clouds, one half to mortal eye reveal'd, Shall pour a dreadful note; the piercing call Shall rattle in the centre of the ball; Th' extended circuit of creation shake, The living ...
— The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 • Edward Young


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