overtrump

• Устаревший глагол, означающий превзойти или перещеголять, особенно в соревновательном или риторическом контексте; сыграть более старшую козырную карту.

An obsolete verb meaning to surpass or outdo, especially in a competitive or rhetorical context; to play a higher trump card.

1. Play a higher trump cardC2formalsport

   In card games, to play a trump card that is higher than another trump card already played in the same trick.

   Перебить козырем

   • He overtrumped his opponent's ace with the king of trumps.
   • In the final trick, she overtrumped the queen with a well-timed jack.
   • The player carefully overtrumped to win the crucial hand.