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TNNurse

(6,931 posts)
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 10:18 AM Dec 2016

Boycott "trump"

I have noticed recently a disturbing number of uses of the word trump in sentences. The dictionary defines the word first in the context

of playing cards. The fourth as a verb to "excel, surpass, outdo".

I feel the "election" of Trump has negated any positive meaning to the word. I question anyone's use of it as tacit support of that man.

Am I sensitive to it's use and notice it more, you bet your ass I am. There are so many better word choices...such as surpass, triumph,

that I suggest that the word itself lose any positive meaning in our vocabulary....maybe forever.

I am no longer comfortable reading articles, ads or posts that use that word as something positive. Call me sensitive, call me overly

critical, call me anything you want. I am too terrified to care.

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Boycott "trump" (Original Post) TNNurse Dec 2016 OP
I need to shower, shave and take a Trump. putitinD Dec 2016 #1
Hee hee. narnian60 Dec 2016 #10
Don't you hate when you eat Chipotle and it gives you the runny, orange trumps? NightWatcher Dec 2016 #11
I agree. Except in one case, which I now intend to use exclusively. Hugin Dec 2016 #2
And every time we hear the Trump sound... N_E_1 for Tennis Dec 2016 #3
It's a courtesy. Hugin Dec 2016 #5
Oh, thank you so much. TNNurse Dec 2016 #7
Don't play any card games. deaniac21 Dec 2016 #4
It belongs in card games. TNNurse Dec 2016 #8
No, I'll keep using "trump" for mockery Vogon_Glory Dec 2016 #6
Tramposo List left Dec 2016 #9

Hugin

(33,222 posts)
2. I agree. Except in one case, which I now intend to use exclusively.
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 10:25 AM
Dec 2016


In British slang, however, “to trump” (intransitive verb) also means to expel gas through the anus — e.g. Trumped from eating too much baked beans — often in a highly audible way (as in with trailing sound).



Make TRUMPING great again!

Oops... Almost forgot a fact based link to back up my facts: TRUMP

Vogon_Glory

(9,137 posts)
6. No, I'll keep using "trump" for mockery
Sun Dec 4, 2016, 10:53 AM
Dec 2016

No, I'll keep using "trump" for purposes of mockery--as in "Ideology trumps the Donald's promises: Congress Guts Medicare!"

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