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deuce.

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

5 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/djuːs//d͡ʒuːs//dus/General-American/ˈdjʉs/Northern-Ireland, Scotland
  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

  2. A side of a die with two spots.

  3. A cast of dice totalling two.

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

    Canada · US · slang
  5. The number two. A two-year prison sentence.

    Canada · slang
  6. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.

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

  8. A curveball.

  9. A 1932 Ford.

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

    in-plural
  11. A table seating two diners.

    slang
  12. The amount of two dollars or two pounds.

    slang
  13. A twopence coin.

    archaic · slang
  14. Douche.

    euphemistic · slang
Where this word comes from

From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.

noun/djuːs/UK/duːs/Canada, US
  1. The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

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

    We had a deuce of a time getting here.
Where this word comes from

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

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