Deuce

/djuːs/ · noun

Meaning

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

Definitions by Sense

1. (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.
4. The number two.
5. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
6. (tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
7. (baseball) A curveball.
8. A 1932 Ford.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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?"

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