trump n.2
1. an admirable person, an excellent fellow; also as term of address, my trump.
| [ | ![[UK]](/static/img/flags/uk.png "United Kingdom") | Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 26: [I ] Shall make him know I’m king of trumps]. |
| Burlesque Homer (4th edn) I 37: [as cit. 1772]. | |
| Beppo in London xlvii: You’re a trump by jingo! | |
| Eng. Spy II 226: Ask Tom who the trumps are in the next stall. | |
| Dens of London 20: His wife, however, is considered a trump (a generous woman) and [...] invariably lets fall a tanner. | |
![[Aus]](/static/img/flags/aus.png "Australia") | Sydney Herald 18 June 4/1: Lord how you does bamboozle them ere flats and swells as comes out all this long way to put up amongst us trumps. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Whip & Satirist of NY & Brooklyn (NY) 14 May n.p.: ‘McC— and a host of others, all regular trumps’. | |
| Scamps of London I iii: How are you, my trump? | |
| Bell’s Life in Sydney 6 Sept. 2/1: No doubt, my bold trump, you’re sufficiently vain / To wish you and I to encounter again. | |
| Mysteries of London II (2nd Ser.) 159: Be Jasus! and you’re a thrump! | |
| Sam Sly 27 Jan. 2/2: [T]ake a pattern by your wife, who is a regular trump, old boy. | |
| Manchester Spy (NH) 5 Apr. n.p.: A youth, eighty years of age, was married [...] to a young lady in her thirtieth year. He’s a trump. | |
![[Ind]](/static/img/flags/ind.png "India") | Delhi Sketch Bk 1 Nov. 129/2: The Co lonel Sir, behaved like a trump, he gave him a month to [...] make up his accounts, with a hint that if the coin was forthcoming the affair should he hushed up. | |
| Tom Brown’s School-Days (1896) 114: What a trump Scud is! | |
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 25/1: Reynolds is the most popular man among them [...] They all say he’s ‘a trump.’. | |
| Wanderings of a Vagabond 356: Mr. Simons expressed his pleasure at becoming acquainted with such an accomplished trump. | |
| Won in a Canter II 325: ‘He behaved all right?’ asked Jack’s father [...] ‘Like a trump, and a gentleman’. | |
| Lays of Ind (1905) 28: The Cornets dubbed her a regular trump, / And worth her weight in gold. | |
| ‘Experiences of a Cunt Philosopher’ in Randiana 40: ‘That is my own trump of a girl’. | |
| Robbery Under Arms (1922) 247: I shook hands with them — two regular trumps, if ever there were any in the world. | |
| Trilby 329: Taffy, I can’t tell you what a trump you are. | |
| Aus. Sl. Dict. 89: Trump, a brave or jolly fellow. | |
| Boy’s Own Paper 16 Feb. 309: Broom rose to the occasion, and behaved like a trump. | |
| Patriotic Schoolgirl 77: ‘You're an absolute trump, old girl!’. | |
| We Were the Rats 5: This Galsworthy is a Pommy bloke who packs a punch. He’s known as a trump all over the place. | |
| (con. WWII) Long White Night 81: Rosa? She’s a trump! | |
| ‘Sympathy in White Major’ High Windows 11: A brick, a trump, a proper sport. |
2. an excellent thing; a stroke of luck.
| Oddities of London Life I 176: The link- men knew to a nicety those parties from whom there was a likelihood of obtaining something for their troublesome services. These were called ‘trumps’. | |
| New and Improved Flash Dict. n.p.: Trump a lucky hit. | |
| (con. 1840s–50s) London Labour and London Poor I 222/2: That’s a trump, to the present day. | |
| Mirror of Life 20 Jan. 8: [pic. caption] spades were trumps Champagne supper of the Gravediggers. |
3. (Aus./N.Z., also trump of the dump) a person in charge.
| Sun. Times (Perth) 5 Aug. 4/8: The chief rajahs and other cullud trumps took to him. | |
| Sun. Times (Perth) 16 Sept. 4/7: She tells the ole trump a tale n’ I hoists her along ter the gaff. | |
| (con. WWI) in Partridge Sl. Today and Yesterday 287: He said he had to be careful because the other fellow was the trump of the dump. | |
| We Were the Rats 26: The trump tells me ya goin’ ter play for us on Sundee week. | |
| ‘Whisper All Aussie Dictionary’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xli 4/5: trump: Top man in any job. Executive manager. | |
![[NZ]](/static/img/flags/nz.png "New Zealand") | (ref. to WWI) Dict. of Kiwi Sl. 115/1: trump of the dump anyone in authority; WWI. | |
| Reed Dict. of N.Z. Sl. [as cit. 1988]. |
4. (US) money.
 | We Called It Music 115: There was a lot of trump* at Delavan; I have seldom seen so many clean† people [f.n.] *money. | |
| God’s Pocket 110: ‘Lissen, I appreciate you helpin’ me out, takin’ it instead of the trump’. |
In phrases
to place someone in an extreme situation or in great difficulties.
| Counter-Rat E4: That Royster, vs to our trumps has put. | |
| Covent-Garden Weeded II i: Your Masters would not put a Gentleman to his trumps thus. | |
| Hist. of Col. Francis Charteris 7: Thus being put to his Trumps might [...] have cured the Colonel of his Itch of Gaming. | |
| Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 148: The Greeks were sorely put to th’ trumps / By a great noisy Trojan rout. | |
| , , | | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
| Lex. Balatronicum. | |
| N.-Y. Eve. Post 2 Dec. 2/2–4: He was for some time put to his trumps, and either from necessity, or with a view again to excite sympathy, obtained employment as a tailor at a respectable shop in Chatham street. | |
| Tales of A Traveller (1850) 19: The only question was, whether such an unexpected accession of company to an already crowded house would not put the housekeeper to her trumps to accomodate them. | |
| Folk-Phrases of Four Counties 26: To be put to one’s trumps = To be embarrassed. |
see sense 3 above .
(US black) first class, fully worked out.
| ‘Tha Shiznit’ 🎵 Cause Snoop Dogg is Trump tight like a virgin, the surgeon Is Dr. Drizzay, so lizzay, and plizzay With DO-double-Gizzay. | |
| Tuff 90: I think I’m more mature than you [...] You might have a few years on me, but compared to you, my game is trump tight. | |
| Off the Charts 141: I don’t like that phat pocket peckerwood Vanderwall any more than you do, but in the biz, he is trump tight, no touchin’ him. |