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trump

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Noun

  1. The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
  2. A playing card of that suit.
  3. Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
  4. An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
  5. An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
  6. A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
  7. A trumpet.
  8. A fart.
  9. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
  10. Synonym of Jew's harp.

Verb

  1. To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
  2. To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
  3. To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
  4. To impose unfairly; to palm off.
  5. To supersede.
  6. To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
  7. To blow a trumpet.
  8. To fart.

Proper noun

  1. A surname from German.
  2. A surname from German: Donald Trump (b. 1946), a businessman, television personality, and current president of the United States of America (2017–2021, 2025–present).
  3. A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

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