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| trump | |
| 1. n. (Cartes) Atout. | |
| 2. n. (Vulgaire) (Enfantin) Pet. | |
| 3. v. (Cartes) Prendre avec un atout. | |
| 4. v. (Figuré) Renchérir sur, faire une enchère supérieure, (renchérir sur quelqu'un). | |
| The move of his competitor trumped his own plans. | |
| 5. v. (Vulgaire) (Enfantin) Péter. | |
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| trump | |
| 1. n. (cards) The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others. |  |
| Diamonds were declared trump(s). | |
| 2. n. (cards) A playing card of that suit. | |
| He played an even higher trump. | |
| 3. n. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve. | |
| 4. n. (colloquial, now rare) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg. | |
| 5. n. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff. | |
| 6. n. A card of the major arcana of the tarot. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, cards) To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump. | |
| He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive, cards) To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump. | |
| 9. v. To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor. | |
| 10. v. (transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off. | |
| 11. v. To supersede. | |
| In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues. | |
| 12. n. (archaic) A trumpet. | |
| 13. n. (slang) Flatulence. | |
| 14. n. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk. | |
| 15. v. To blow a trumpet. | |
| 16. v. (intransitive, slang) To flatulate. | |
| And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed. | |
| 17. n. (dated, musical instrument) (synonym of Jew's harp). | |
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