deuce

noun

1. 1

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

   You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.

2. 2

   A side of a die with two spots.

3. 3

   A cast of dice totalling two.

4. 4

   slangThe number two. A bowel movement (the event or the result).

5. 5

   slangThe number two. A two-year prison sentence.

   Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.

6. 6

   A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.

7. 7

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

8. 8

   A curveball.

9. 9

   A 1932 Ford.

   And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.

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   It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.

10. 10

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

11. 11

    slangA table seating two diners.

12. 12

    slangThe amount of two dollars or two pounds.

    Lend me a deuce until next week, will ya?

13. 13

    archaicA twopence coin.

    It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.

14. 14

    slangDouche.

noun

1. 1

   The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

   Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why

   To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.

   "Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"

   Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"

2. 2

   Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).

   We had a deuce of a time getting here.

Forms

plural

deuces