trumps

noun

Meaning

A musical instrument consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo “tongue” attached to a frame. This tongue is placed in the performer’s mouth and plucked with the finger to produce a note of constant pitch. Melodies can be created by changing the shape of the mouth and causing different overtones.
The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
A playing card of that suit.
Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
To impose unfairly; to palm off.
To supersede.
To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
A trumpet.
Flatulence.
The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
To blow a trumpet.
To flatulate.

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