52-card pickup

English

Noun

52-card pickup (uncountable)

1. A card game played as a practical joke, wherein the "dealer" throws the deck of cards in the air, and the other player must pick them up off the floor.
   • 1978 July 15, Ray Herbeck Jr., “Unleashing the Grease on an Unsuspecting Public”, in Billboard, volume 90, number 28, →ISSN, page S-12:

     She points to a shooting board propped against the studio wall. It resembles a game of 52 card pickup which has been picked up in turn from the floor and pinned en masse to the board.

   • 2010 April 30, “Action 52”, in The Angry Video Game Nerd‎^[1], James Rolfe (actor):

     You know what's more fun than playing Action 52? (holds up deck of cards) 52-card pickup. You know how you play that? (riffles deck onto floor) Pick up the cards!

   • 2010 August 12, Melissa Thomson, Keena Ford and the Field Trip Mix-Up‎^[2], Puffin, →ISBN, →OL:

     Brian came into my room and said, “Do you want to play 52-Card Pickup?” and I said, “Sure!” because like I said, I love card games. Then Brian took the cards out of the box and threw them EVERYWHERE in the room. And then Brian said, “Okay, now pick them up.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:52 pickup.

Synonyms

• 52 pickup