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.

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.

simple past tense and past participle of pickeer

(obsolete) To make a raid for booty; to maraud. / (obsolete) To skirmish in advance of an army.

Archaic form of pickaback.

(colloquial) A person who picks things up. / (colloquial) A tool used to pick things up.

plural of picker-upper

A person employed on a shoot to pick up dead game. / (colloquial) A person who picks things up. / A person hired by a gambling establishment to locate potential customers and bring them in.

Alternative form of cherry picker

(archaic, idiomatic) To prepare a particular punishment or penalty to be applied in the future.