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Definition of Trump card
1. Noun. A playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps. "The ace of trumps is a sure winner"
Definition of Trump card
1. Noun. A playing card, of the trump suite that is held in reserve until needed to win a trick ¹
2. Noun. Something used to obtain an advantage, sometimes unscrupulously ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trump Card
Literary usage of Trump card
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"Faced card discovered in .pack before trump card is turned, ... Misdeal discovered
after trump card turned, and before proposing or playing, non-dealer has ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The dealer then discards his lowest and least useful card, and takes the trump
card into his hand; in this case, however, the dealer must succeed in taking ..."
3. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... face downwards, and is entitled to take the trump card into his hand ; but
the card is generally left on the pack until wanted in ..."
4. Hoyle's Games: Containing the Rules for Playing Fashionable Games, with by Edmond Hoyle (1887)
"... necessary that the trump card should be remembered by the dealer and his
partoer, that we think it proper 10 repeat, that the dealer ..."
5. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To trump up, To card ; to interpose as with a trump card ; to be an impediment.
TRUMPERY, (trump'-er-e) nj Something fallaciously splendid ; something of ..."
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