[
US
/ˈtɹəmp/
]
[ UK /tɹˈʌmp/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈʌmp/ ]
VERB
- produce a sound as if from a trumpet
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get the better of
the goal was to best the competition - proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
- play a trump
NOUN
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(card games) the suit that has been declared to rank above all other suits for the duration of the hand
clubs were declared trumps
a trump can take a trick even when a card of a different suit is led -
a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps
the ace of trumps is a sure winner - a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
How To Use trump In A Sentence
- This close-up view of what had been trumpeted as the greatest army on earth provided facts which took time to absorb. KARA KUSH
- A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
- The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
- Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
- And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
- Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
- It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
- Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
- Maybe I should bring along my trumpet to liven things up! The Sun
- But then he decided to play his trump card .
