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trumpings

trumpings is the plural of trumping.

Meaning of trumping

Noun

trumping (plural trumpings)

  1. The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
    • Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book, page 102
  2. (archaic, poetic) The sound of a trumpet.
    • We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
      To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record

Questions about trumpings

What is trumpings the plural of?
Trumpings is the plural of trumping.

Words near trumpings in the dictionary

  1. Trumpiest
  2. Trumpification
  3. Trumpiness
  4. trumping
  5. trumping up
  6. trumpings
  7. Trumpington
  8. Trumpish
  9. Trumpishness
  10. Trumpism
  11. Trumpisms

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