<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>the suit itself.</li><li>Informal: Older Use. a fine, admirable person.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>to take with a trump.</li><li>to excel; surpass; outdo.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>to play a trump.</li><li>to take a trick with a trump.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb phrase</strong></p><ul><li>to devise deceitfully or dishonestly, as an accusation; fabricate: Try as they might, they were unable to trump up a convincing case against him.</li></ul>