Trump

Trump

A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its normal rank in trick-taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a trump suit - these cards then outrank all cards of plain (non-trump) suits. In other contexts, the term trump card can refer to any sort of action, authority, or policy which automatically prevails over all others.

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Famous quotes containing the word trump:

    Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    If there was one egg in it there were nine,
    Torpedo-like, with shell of gritty leather,
    All packed in sand to wait the trump together.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    I’m a bit of a P.T. Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
    —Donald Trump (b. 1946)