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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.
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The suit, in a game of cards, that outranks all others.
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Diamonds were declared trump(s).
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A playing card of that suit.
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He played an even higher trump.
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Something that gives one an advantage, especially one held in reserve.
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An excellent person; a fine fellow, a good egg.
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An old card game, almost identical to whist; the game of ruff.
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A card of the major arcana of the tarot.
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To play on (a card of another suit) with a trump.
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He knew the hand was lost when his ace was trumped.
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To play a trump, or to take a trick with a trump.
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To get the better of, or finesse, a competitor.
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To impose unfairly; to palm off.
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To supersede.
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In this election, it would seem issues of national security trumped economic issues.
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To outweigh; be stronger, greater, bigger than or in other way superior to.
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A trumpet.
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Flatulence.
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The noise made by an elephant through its trunk.
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To blow a trumpet.
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To flatulate.
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And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.