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plural deuces
(card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. examples
(dice games) A side of a die with two spots. examples
(dice games) A cast of dice totalling two. examples
The number two.
(Canada, US, slang) A piece of excrement.
(Canada, slang) A two-year prison sentence.
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle fingers, a peace sign. examples
(tennis) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points. examples
(baseball) A curveball. examples
A '32 Ford. quotations examples
1978, Joe Mayall, “Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy”, in Rod Action, page 26
It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.
2012, Pat Ganahl, Lost Hot Rods II: More Remarkable Stories of How They Were Found, page 62
(in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold). examples
(restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.
(epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger. quotations examples
Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why
1840, William Makepeace Thackeray, Catherine
To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.
1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
"Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"
1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887
Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 65
Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”) examples