(trump) noun
1. In various card games, a card of the suit selected to rank above all others temporarily.
2. The suit thus determined: usually in the plural.
3. Colloq. A very acceptable and agreeable person; good fellow.
—v.t.
1. To take (another card) with a trump.
2. To surpass; excel; beat.
—v.i.
3. To play a trump.
—to trump up To make up or invent for a fraudulent purpose. [Alter. of TRIUMPH]

(trump) noun
1. Poetic A trumpet.
2. Scot. A jew's–harp. [<OF trompe <Gmc.]