Deuce

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /djuːs/, /dÍ¡Ê’uːs/
• US IPA: /duːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

French deux ("two"), from Old French deus, from Latin duo.

Full definition of deuce

Noun

1. (cards) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
2. (dice) A side of a die with two spots.
3. (dice) 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 additional points.
6. (baseball) A curveball
7. (custom cars) A '32 FordGeisert, 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. in plural, 2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
8. (restaurants) A table seating two diners.
9. (slang) Excrement.

Coordinate terms

• (card with two spots)

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /djuːs/
• US IPA: /duːs/
• Rhymes: -uːs

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

Noun

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or angerLove is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

Anagrams

• educe