deuce — English Dictionary

Noun

1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

   Synonyms

   two

   Examples

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   You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

2. A side of a die with two spots.

3. A cast of dice totalling two.

4. The number two. A bowel movement (the event or the result).

   Usage

   • Canada
   • US usage
   • Slang

   Synonyms

   number two

5. The number two. A two-year prison sentence.

   Usage

   • Canada
   • Slang

   Examples

   Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.

6. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.

7. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.

8. A curveball.

9. A 1932 Ford.

   Examples

   And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.

   It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.

10. Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).

    Usage

    • in-plural

11. A table seating two diners.

    Usage

    • Slang

    Synonyms

    two-top

12. The amount of two dollars or two pounds.

    Usage

    • Slang

    Examples

    Lend me a deuce until next week, will ya?

13. A twopence coin.

    Usage

    • Archaic
    • Slang

    Examples

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    It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.

14. Douche.

    Usage

    • euphemistic
    • Slang

Noun

1. The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

   Examples

   Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why

   To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.

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   "Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"

   Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"

2. Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).

   Examples

   We had a deuce of a time getting here.

Noun

1. a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game

   Broader terms

   tie

2. the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number

   Synonyms

   twoII

   Broader terms

   digitfigure

3. a word used in exclamations of confusion

   Synonyms

   devildickens

   Broader terms

   exclamationexclaiming

   Examples

   what the devil

   the deuce with it

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   the dickens you say

4. one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots

   Synonyms

   two

   Broader terms

   playing card