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fifty-two cards or a wooden stage, both built for clean dramatic exits.
means A flat surface or platform — a pack of playing cards, the floor of a ship, or a raised wooden patio — and, as a verb, to strike someone hard enough to drop them.
from From Middle Dutch 'dec' or 'decke,' meaning a covering or roof — the same root as the English word 'thatch' and a cousin of words for things that cover. A ship's deck was originally just that: a covering laid over the hull. The card-pack sense, recorded by Shakespeare's time, may come from the idea of cards stacked in a covering layer. The slangy 'deck him' — to knock someone flat — is American and much later, the violent twist of laying a man out as flat as a floorboard.
- card count
- 52 cards mirror 52 weeks in a year
- suit math
- add all card values: roughly 365
- sailor slang
- to deck someone means knock them flat
- hidden faces
- jacks, queens, kings model real medieval royalty
- slide decks
- named after physical projector card stacks
titanic boat deck — rms titanic's promenade deck where 1,500+ people gathered before sinking in 1912
aircraft carrier flight deck — uss nimitz's 4.5-acre flight deck launches 65+ aircraft in the pacific
skateboard grip deck — tony hawk's signature grip deck design revolutionized skateboarding in the 1980s