trumps

A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.

The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.

“Diamonds were declared trump(s).”

A playing card of that suit.

“He played an even higher trump.”

Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.

An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.

An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.

A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

“He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.”

To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.

To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.

To impose unfairly; to palm off.

To supersede.

“In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.”

To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

A trumpet.

Flatulence.

The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

To blow a trumpet.

To flatulate.

“And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.”