English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːs/, /d͡ʒuːs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /duːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

deuce ‎(plural deuces)

1. (card games) A card with two spots, 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. (tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two consecutive points.
6. (baseball) A curveball
7. A '32 Ford.^[1]
8. (in the plural) 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the phrase 3 deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
9. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
10. (slang) A piece of excrement.

See also

Playing cards in English · playing cards (layout · text)
ace	deuce, two	three	four	five	six	seven
eight	nine	ten	jack	queen	king	joker

Translations

Etymology 2

Compare Late Latin dusius ‎(“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse ‎(“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus ‎(“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity.)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /djuːs/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /duːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

Noun

deuce ‎(plural deuces)

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger

   Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

Translations

References

• (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Notes:

1. ↑ Geisert, Eric. "The California Spyder", in Street Rodder, 8/99, p.34; Mayall, Joe. "Driving Impression: Reproduction Deuce Hiboy", in Rod Action, 2/78, p.26.

Anagrams

• educe