trumping

English

Verb

trumping

1. present participle and gerund of trump

Noun

trumping (plural trumpings)

1. 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'.

2. (poetic, archaic) The sound of a trumpet.
   • 1861-1868, Frank Moore, The Rebellion Record

     We list to the trumpings that herald the storm,
     To the roll of the drum, and the order to form!