transcription, транскрипция: [ trʌmp ]
( trumps, trumping, trumped)
1.
In a game of cards, trumps is the suit which is chosen to have the highest value in one particular game.
Hearts are trumps.
N-UNCOUNT-COLL
2.
In a game of cards, a trump is a playing card which belongs to the suit which has been chosen as trumps.
He played a trump.
N-COUNT
3.
If you trump what someone has said or done, you beat it by saying or doing something else that seems better.
The Socialists tried to trump this with their slogan...
VERB : V n
4.
Your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone.
In the end, the Ten took their appeal to the Supreme Court; this, they had believed from the outset, would be their trump card...
PHRASE : poss PHR
5.
If you say that someone came up trumps , you mean that they did something successfully, often when they were not expected to. ( BRIT )
Dwayne has come up trumps with a goal worthy of winning any match.
PHRASE : V inflects