trumps

noun

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.

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. 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.

1. To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.

   He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.

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.

   In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.

6. To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.

1. A trumpet.
2. Flatulence.
3. The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.

1. To blow a trumpet.
2. To flatulate.

   And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.