Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To play more or higher trumps than another, as at cards; hence, figuratively, to get the better of.
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Examples
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The man is simply a self-aggrandizing publicity addict who must out-trump even himself with each new disingenuous announcement.
Andy Ostroy: Donald Trump Doesn't Know Reality From Reality TV Andy Ostroy 2011
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The man is simply a self-aggrandizing publicity addict who must out-trump even himself with each new disingenuous announcement.
Andy Ostroy: Donald Trump Doesn't Know Reality From Reality TV Andy Ostroy 2011
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The man is simply a self-aggrandizing publicity addict who must out-trump even himself with each new disingenuous announcement.
Andy Ostroy: Donald Trump Doesn't Know Reality From Reality TV Andy Ostroy 2011
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It seems that politicians out-trump even the most supposedly seductive stars when it comes to racy sex lives.
Bonnie Fuller: Battle of the Cheaters! Who Does It More: Hollywooders or Politicos? 2008
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Fresh ideas sure out-trump plain old "no more smears."'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Guide to the Sleaziest (and Most Contradictory) Smears on the Dem Nominee 2008
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Fresh ideas sure out-trump plain old 'no more smears.'
OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Guide to the Sleaziest (and Most Contradictory) Smears on the Dem Nominee 2008
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These envelopes out-trump anything anyone could possibly throw at me.
Deception Point Dan Brown 2001
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They clearly felt themselves called upon to out-trump the pagan _Mystae_.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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Monty smiled, for he held a card that could out-trump our best one, and he knew it.
The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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Oh well, said Karl, youll easily out-trump him.
Paras. 100–199 1917
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