Trump
proper noun
- family name
- Donald Trump
noun
- playing card with a higher rank
verb
- overcome
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /tɹʌmp/ / [t͡ʃɹʌmp]
name
Etymology: The surname has two sources. * English (Devon): an occupational name for a trumpeter, from Middle English trumpe (“trumpet”). * German (Bavaria): from German Trump, possibly an occupational name for a drummer, from Middle High German trumbe (“drum”), although the alternative forms Trumpf, Drumpf cannot be derived from this (except by postulating them to be hypercorrections) * The place in Baltimore county was named after settler Simeon Van Trump.
- A surname from English or German.
“The house at which he was to lodge had been selected with considerable judgment. It was kept by a tidy old widow known as Mrs. Trump; but those who knew any thing of Hamworth affairs were well aware that Mrs. Trump had been left without a shilling, and could not have taken that snug little house in Paradise Row and furnished it completely out of her own means.”
- A surname from English or German.
“During their interview, Shahidi asked Clinton about the uncomfortable second presidential debate, during which Trump stalked her around the stage.”
- A ghost town in Park County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
noun
Etymology: Ellipsis of Jew's-trump, which may be from French jeu-trompe (literally “toy trumpet”).
- Synonym of Jew's harp.
verb
Etymology: From Middle English trumpe, trompe (“trumpet”), from Old French trompe (“horn, trump, trumpet”), from Frankish *trumpa (“trumpet”), from a common Germanic word of imitative origin. Doublet of tulumba and tromp. Akin to Old High German trumpa, trumba (“horn, trumpet”), Middle Dutch tromme (“drum”), Middle Low German trumme (“drum”). More at trumpet, drum.
- To blow a trumpet.
- To fart.
“And without warning me, as he lay there, he suddenly trumped next to me in bed.”
“Who trumped?”