trump
trump
noun
/trʌmp/
1 ​(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.
TOPICS Games and toys C2
Collocations
trump + noun
card
suit
2 ​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.
Idioms
come up/turn up trumps
Word Origin
early 16th cent.: alteration of triumph, once used in card games in the same sense.