- (also trump card)[countable] (in some card games) a card that belongs to the suit (= one of the four sets in a pack of cards) that has been chosen for a particular game to have a higher value than the other three suits
- I played a trump and won the trick.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarytrump + noun- card
- suit
- trumps[uncountable + singular or plural verb] (in some card games) the suit that has been chosen for a particular game to have a higher value than the other three suits
- What's trumps?
- Clubs are trumps.
- Trumps is/are the suit with the highest value.
Oxford Collocations Dictionarytrump + noun- card
- suit
Word Originearly 16th cent.: alteration of triumph, once used in card games in the same sense.
Idioms
See trump in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarycome up/turn up trumps
- to do what is necessary to make a particular situation successful, especially when this is sudden or unexpected
- I didn't honestly think he'd pass the exam but he came up trumps on the day.
- Just when we thought there was no hope, my parents turned up trumps with a large loan.
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