trump up

1. 1.

   invent

   “trump up charges”

   Synonymsconcoct

   Broaderfabricate

Questions about trump up

What does trump up mean?

trump up means "invent".

What is another word for trump up?

Close synonyms include concoct. 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 up a common word?

trump up is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.