1. trumps - Noun
2. trumps - Verb
trumps
plural of trump
(Britain) The suit in a game of cards that outranks all others.
The major arcana of the tarot.
trumps
third-person singular simple present indicative of trump
A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator. Jerry Coyne
I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid. Bill Maher
Let spades be trumps she said, and trumps they were. Alexander Pope
Miller and his colleague Marty Haselton at UCLA have shown that creativity trumps wealth, at least in human females. Daniel Levitin
Life is like a game in which God shuffles the cards, the devil deals them and we have to play the trumps. Yugoslav Proverb
With someone holding nothing but trumps it is impossible to play cards. German Proverb