trump

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a. any card from the suit chosen as trumps

b. this suit itself; trumps

² Archaic or literary

1. a trumpet or the sound produced by one

2. the last trump the final trumpet call that according to the belief of some will awaken and raise the dead on the Day of Judgment

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