Pocket Picker

On the surface, the word seems similar to 'pickpocket,' but it has a whole different meaning. A pocket picker, similar to a 'prison princess,' is a person who hangs onto the pocket of stronger, more dominant prisoners, mostly referring to gay people. It can also be used to refer to someone who is so far up someone else's ass that you can see the hair in the back of their throat.

Male 1: Yo, you hear about Male 2? He started picking pockets. People are calling him a pocket picker.

by Harry the prisoner July 6, 2024

BRAIN PICKER

A Psychiatrist

Man, that is so a Brain Picker going through your head!

by Non Partisan January 15, 2025

Asexual Pick Up Artist: The First Juvenile Release

What I call homo-sapiens who are addicted to perianal abscesses.

Person 1: Are you addicted to abscesses?
Person 2: Yes.
Person 1: Asexual Pick Up Artist: The First Juvenile Release

by LeSouffleDeVersailles January 26, 2025

Hasty Picking

Selectively choosing only the earliest, most immediate, or most convenient data points to support a claim, while ignoring the broader timeline or later-developing information. It’s the fallacy of drawing a conclusion from a sample that is not only too small, but also prematurely snatched. The hasty picker is the person who declares a movie a masterpiece after the first trailer or a policy a failure after its first week.

Example: "He engaged in hasty picking about the new manager, citing her awkward first meeting as proof she'd be a disaster. He ignored the next six months where she turned the department around, because his initial 'data point' was already cemented as his truth."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Sweeping Picking

The act of cherry-picking evidence from across a wide range of sources, but only selecting those singular examples that appear to support a broad, universal conclusion, thereby creating the illusion of comprehensive research. It’s a scatter-shot form of confirmation bias that uses geographic or categorical breadth to disguise its selective depth.

Example: "Her case for 'global cultural decline' was built on sweeping picking: one rude tourist in Paris, a viral video of a fight in Bangkok, and a canceled art show in New York. She'd swept the globe for anecdotes, carefully picking only the ones that fit her pre-written thesis of doom."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

General Picking

The standard form of cherry-picking: selectively choosing data or examples that support a general claim while ignoring a significant portion of relevant, contrary data. It’s the most common method of constructing a misleading yet seemingly reasonable argument, where the selected evidence is truthful but the resulting picture is false because it’s incomplete.

Example: "The ad used general picking to sell the supplement: 'Studies show increased vitality!' It picked the two small, company-funded studies with positive results and ignored the fifty independent studies showing no effect beyond a placebo. The general claim was built on a specially picked foundation."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026

Special Picking

A more insidious form of selection that focuses on extraordinary, anomalous, or extreme cases and presents them as representative of the whole. It often involves picking the most emotionally charged or bizarre examples to provoke outrage or fear, making rational assessment of the typical case impossible.

Example: "The debate turned into special picking when he argued against immigration by focusing solely on the one, highly publicized crime committed by an immigrant last year. By specially picking this extreme, traumatic outlier, he painted a picture of universal threat, drowning out all statistical reality."

by AbzuInExile January 31, 2026