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n. (trading card English)
Usage examples of "trading cards".
The Atlanta Falcons and the Westside Jaycees print trading cards of their teams, with safety tips as captions.
Other cartons had trading cards printed on them, with prizes such as footballs and flash cameras given to children who collected the entire set.
A Heisman Trophy or an Oscar counted for far more - there was no market for Heroes of Science trading cards.
In his dream, Blaine had been the dusty, sugary pink of the bubblegum you got with baseball trading cards.
He has lost interest in his trading cards, which are neatly stacked next to a blue cell phone.
I thought you detectives collected this stuff, passed it around like trading cards.
We've had trading cards, resin statues, action figures, stuffed toys, jewelry, watches, an in-depth guide to the series (The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender), a prose sequel of sorts (The Dream Hunters, Gaiman's collaboration with Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano), an ongoing spin-off comic (The Dreaming), an anthology of Sandman stories by other authors, co-edited by Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams), and even a collection of the covers of the complete run of the original series by Dave McKean (Dust Covers).
The smell brought those summers back to him, sitting on the floor of his room with his best friend, trading cards back and forth until they'd completely mixed up whose was whose.
Maybe they did fit together into bigger groups, the way the backsides of trading cards often tile together to form a picture.
Otherwise, they said, those kiddies could just stay where they were and swap baseball trading cards until their air ran out.
I had the Lazlo Woodbine, private-eye secret codebook, the pen with the invisible ink, the unique plastic replica of Lazs trusty Smith & Wesson (that was not a toy, but a collectable) and the complete set of Death Wears a Turquoise Homburg1 trading cards.