Deuce

Word DEUCE
Character 5
Hyphenation deuce
Pronunciations /djuːs/

Definitions and meanings of "Deuce"

What do we mean by deuce?

The devil. noun

An outstanding example, especially of something difficult or bad. noun

A severe reprimand or expression of anger. noun

Used as an intensive. noun

A playing card having two spots or the side of a die bearing two pips. noun

A cast of dice totaling two. noun

A tied score in tennis in which each player or side has 40 points, or 5 or more games, and one player or side must win 2 successive points to win the game, or 2 successive games to win the set. noun

To make the score of (a tennis game or set) deuce. transitive verb

The devil: used, with or without the definite article, chiefly in exclamatory or interjectional phrases, expressing surprise, impatience, or emphasis: as, deuce take you! go to the deuce! the deuce you did! noun

In cards and other games, two; a card or die with two spots. noun

In lawn-tennis, a stage of the game in which both players or sides have scored 40, and one must score 2, or, if the other has vantage, 3 points in succession in order to win the game. noun

The devil; a demon. noun

Two; a card or a die with two spots. noun

A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned “40 all”), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game. noun

A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. noun

A side of a die with two spots. noun

A cast of dice totalling two. noun

The number two. noun

A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points. noun

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

A side of a die with two spots.

A cast of dice totalling two.

The number two.

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

A curveball.

A '32 Ford.

(in the plural) 2-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).

(restaurants) A table seating two diners.

A piece of excrement.

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The word "deuce" in example sentences

"But what the deuce is all this?" demanded the other. ❋ Unknown (1778)

And the Caroline C----- (who the deuce is she that writes such a scratchy, illegible hand?) sends her love to Mrs. Carlyle, and proposes to 'talk to her about Amisfield and ❋ Unknown (1883)

'After all,' said Darwin the other day, 'what the deuce is Carlyle's religion, or has he any?' ❋ Unknown (1883)

But to point out the faults of this composition would be absurd indeed, for they are innumerable and glaring, and the deuce is in it, if Mr. Beddoes does not wonder at himself and his play, before he is three-and-twenty. ❋ Unknown (1823)

And who the deuce is Mr. Edgar Percival Clerimont? ❋ Unknown (1833)

“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway? ❋ Geoff Barbanell (2010)

Now give it to-to - [stamps his foot] — what the deuce is her name? — give it to the maid, and tell her to take it at once to the Mayor. ❋ Unknown (2008)

‘What the deuce is the matter with him?’ exclaimed Crowl, throwing the door open. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And my lord looked at him with a noble curiosity, as much as to say, “Who the deuce was the barber-surgeon? and who the devil are you?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

“What the deuce was the good of my telling you what any tom-fools talked about?” ❋ Unknown (2006)

What the deuce is the use of chronology or philosophy? ❋ Unknown (2006)

What the deuce is a fellow to do when a woman goes on in that way. ❋ Unknown (2004)

‘What the deuce is a fellow to say, George, when he stands up after the clatter is done?’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

What the deuce was the good of talking about regularity and self-respect? ❋ Unknown (2004)

What the deuce was the good then of our going down here? ❋ Unknown (2004)

I took a vicious beat at the end of the night, when my ace-high diamond flush got beat by Jacks full of deuces, my fault: the board was J-2-x-x-2, and I was so happy to make the flush I didn't think about the possible full house . . . even if the deuce was the only card that could both make my hand and beat me but I still left $24 ahead. ❋ Unknown (2004)

“What the deuce is the matter with me, this evening?” ❋ Unknown (2004)

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