Green’s Dictionary of Slang

trumpet n.

1. the nose.

[Aus]Bell’s Life in Sydney 2 Feb. 2/4: A flush hit on the trumpet again brought him to grass.
[US]C. White The Hop of Fashion in Darkey Drama 4 Act I: Go way, ole Indian rubber, or I’ll burst your trumpet.
[US]R.L. Bellem ‘Dead Man’s Guilt’ Dan Turner – Hollywood Detective May 🌐 I [...] waved a twenty beneath his trumpet. ‘Folding money, uncle.’.

2. (UK Und.) a vain man.

[US]Matsell Vocabulum.

3. an act of breaking wind.

[UK]‘Walter’ My Secret Life (1966) III 433: I [...] used to pull open my arse-hole to lessen the noise of my trumpet.
[US]S. King Dreamcatcher 77: Man, that was some trumpet-blast he blew, wasn’t it? And the stink!

4. the telephone.

[UK]D. Powis Signs of Crime 205: Trumpet The telephone.

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