trump card

1. 1.

   a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps

   “the ace of trumps is a sure winner”

   Synonymstrump

   Broaderplaying card

Questions about trump card

What does trump card mean?

trump card means "a playing card in the suit that has been declared trumps".

What is another word for trump card?

Close synonyms include trump. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is trump card a common word?

trump card is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.