Deuce

Quick meaning: Deuce is a noun meaning (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
2. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
3. The number two.
4. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
5. (tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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

Word Forms

• deuces

Synonyms for deuce

Depending on context, synonyms include two, two-top, devil, dickens.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include two, dickens, devil, ace, carburettor, carburetor.

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