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"

Exact synonyms: Trump
Generic synonyms: Playing Card
Derivative terms: Trump

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

truing
truism
truismatic
truisms
truistic
trulls
trully
truly
truly yours
trumeau
trumeaus
trumeaux
trummerfeld scurvy zone
trump
trump card (current term)
trump cards
trump out
trump up
trumped
trumped-up
trumped-up(a)
trumperies
trumpery
trumpet
trumpet-wood
trumpet arch
trumpet creeper
trumpet flower
trumpet honeysuckle

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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