52-card pickup

[ fif-tee too-kahrd pik-uhp ]

noun

1. a prankish card game; a practical joke in which a game is presumed, but instead all the cards from a standard deck are scattered into the air and have to be picked up.
2. any of various card games that involve plays made from a deck of scattered cards.

Word History and Origins

Origin of 52-card pickup¹

First recorded in 1940–45