trump card

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Transcription

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [truhmp kahrd]
- /trʌmp kɑrd/

- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
- [truhmp kahrd]
- /trʌmp kɑrd/

Definitions of trump card words

noun trump card Cards. trump1 (def 1a). 1
noun trump card Informal. something that gives one person or group the advantage over another: The surprise witness was his trump card. 1
noun trump card playing card that gives an advantage 1
noun trump card sth that gives sb an advantage 1
noun trump card your trump card is something powerful that you can use or do, which gives you an advantage over someone 0

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Origin of trump card

First appearance:

before 1815

One of the 39% newest English words

First recorded in 1815-25

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Parts of speech for Trump card

noun

adjective

verb

adverb

pronoun

preposition

conjunction

determiner

exclamation

Full grammatical hierarchy of Trump card

trump card popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 34% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.

According to our data most of word are more popular. This word is almost not used. It has a much more popular synonym.

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Synonyms for trump card

noun trump card

ace in the hole — Something that is an ace in the hole is an advantage which you have over an opponent or rival, and which you can use if necessary.
ace up one's sleeve — a playing card or die marked with or having the value indicated by a single spot: He dealt me four aces in the first hand.
card up one's sleeve — a plan or resource kept secret or held in reserve
last resort — desperate recourse
leg up — either of the two lower limbs of a biped, as a human being, or any of the paired limbs of an animal, arthropod, etc., that support and move the body.

All 5 Synonyms of trump card