deuce
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English [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
French deux (“two”), from Old French deus, from Latin duo.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
deuce (plural deuces)
- (card games) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
- (dice) A side of a die with two spots.
- (dice) A cast of dice totalling two.
- The number two.
- (tennis) A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points.
- (baseball) A curveball
- (custom cars) A '32 Ford[1] in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
- (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
Coordinate terms [edit]
- (card with two spots): (playing cards) playing card; ace, deuce, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king, joker
Translations [edit]
playing card
side of a dice with two spots
cast of dice totalling two
number two
tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points
baseball: curveball
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Etymology 2 [edit]
Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity.)
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
deuce (plural deuces)
- (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 [edit]
Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
References [edit]
- (etymology) deuce in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- Notes:
- ^ 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.
