to play one's trump card

  • 1play one's trump card — use one s winning card; draw the last card …

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  • 2trump card — n. final resource to play one s trump card * * * [ trʌmpkɑːd] [ final resource ] to play one s trump card …

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  • 3Trump Card — Infobox Television show name = Trump Card caption = format = Game show runtime = 30 minutes creator = Terry Mardell starring = Jimmy Cefalo Host Debi Massey Hostess country = USA network = Syndication first aired = 1990 last aired = 1991 Trump… …

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  • 4trump card — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. informal, advantage, ace in the hole. See superiority. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. best play, strongest means, most effective device, trick; see agent 1 , device 2 , strength 1 . III (Roget s Thesaurus… …

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  • 5Trump — card redirects here. For the game show, see Trump Card (game show). For other uses, see Trump (disambiguation). A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its normal rank in trick taking games. Typically an entire suit is nominated as a… …

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  • 6Trump — Trump, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Trumped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Trumping}.] To play a trump card when one of another suit has been led. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 7card game — Introduction       game played for pleasure or gambling (or both) with one or more decks of playing cards (playing card). Games using playing cards exploit the fact that cards are individually identifiable from one side only, so that each player… …

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  • 8card — card1 W2S1 [ka:d US ka:rd] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(information)¦ 2¦(money)¦ 3¦(greetings)¦ 4¦(holiday)¦ 5¦(stiff paper)¦ 6¦(for writing information)¦ 7¦(games)¦ 8 football/baseball etc card 9¦(business)¦ 10¦(computer)¦ …

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  • 9card — 1 noun 1 library/membership/identity etc card a small piece of plastic or paper that shows that someone belongs to a particular organization, club etc: Employees must show their ID cards at the gate. 2 BIRTHDAY/CHRISTMAS ETC (C) a piece of thick… …

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  • 10Trump coup — The trump coup is a contract bridge coup used when the hand on lead (typically the dummy) has no trumps remaining, while the next hand in rotation has only trumps, including a high one that would have been onside for a direct finesse if a trump… …

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