trumps

Noun

trump (plural trumps)

1. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
   • Diamonds were declared trump(s).
2. A playing card of that suit.
   • He played an even higher trump.
3. (figuratively) Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
   • VVere Iacke Strawe a liue againe,
     And I in as good poſſibility as euer I was,
     I would lay a ſurer trumpe,
     Ere I would loſe ſo faire a tricke.1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act IV
4. (archaic, colloquial) An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
   • [W]e permitted no hostile foot to pass over or desecrate his resting place; shall be that which to learn the last trump shall awaken our WASHINGTON.1838, Abraham Lincoln, “Address Before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois”, in The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions, archived from the original on 05 Feb 2013
5. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
   • There be many one that breaketh this carde,[…]and playeth there with oftentimes at the blinde trompe, wherby they be no winners but great losersc. 1529, Hugh Latimer, Sermons on the Card
6. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.

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