Trumps

noun
1.
Cards.

any playing card of a suit that for the time outranks the other suits, such a card being able to take any card of another suit.
Often, trumps. (used with a singular verb) the suit itself.

2.
Informal. a fine person; brick.
verb (used with object)
3.
Cards. to take with a trump.
4.
to excel; surpass; outdo.
verb (used without object)
5.
Cards.

to play a trump.
to take a trick with a trump.

Verb phrases
6.
trump up, to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate:
Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.
noun
1.
a trumpet.
2.
its sound.
verb (used without object)
3.
to blow a trumpet.
plural noun
1.
(sometimes sing) (cards) any one of the four suits, decided by cutting or bidding, that outranks all the other suits for the duration of a deal or game
2.
turn up trumps, (of a person) to bring about a happy or successful conclusion (to an event, problem, etc), esp unexpectedly
noun
1.
Also called trump card

any card from the suit chosen as trumps
this suit itself; trumps

2.
Also called trump card. a decisive or advantageous move, resource, action, etc
3.
(informal) a fine or reliable person
verb
4.
to play a trump card on (a suit, or a particular card of a suit, that is not trumps)
5.
(transitive) to outdo or surpass
noun
1.
a trumpet or the sound produced by one
2.
the last trump, the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment
verb
3.
(intransitive) to produce a sound upon or as if upon the trumpet
4.
(transitive) to proclaim or announce with or as if with a fanfare
5.
(intransitive) (Brit, slang) to expel intestinal gas through the anus