trumping
English
Noun
trumping (plural trumpings)
- The act by which something is trumped, topped or capped.
- 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)
- Employ two revokes, two trumpings of your partner's best card and two ignorings of a call — all in the same hand!
- 2012, Tony Veale, Exploding The Creativity Myth
- To describe an oddball combination like 'Frolf' as a 'marriage of Frisbee and Golf' is to open yourself to trumpings of the form 'yeah, a shotgun marriage', 'a broken marriage', or depending on your politics, a 'gay marriage'.
- 1923, William Henry Koebel, All Aboard: A Frivolous Book (page 102)
- (poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.
- Frank Moore
- We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!
- We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
- Frank Moore
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