Ace

/eɪs/ · noun

Meaning

(card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game..

Definitions by Sense

1. (card games) A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
2. (dice games) A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
3. The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
4. (US, slang) A dollar bill.
5. A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
6. (tennis, volleyball) A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
7. (sports) A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
8. (US, baseball) The best pitcher on the team.

Example Sentences

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.

Ace in the corner.

[…] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.

If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.

He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.

I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;

"Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.

an ace detective

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• aces
• acing
• aced
• more ace
• most ace

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