deuce.
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
Meaning & usage
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
A side of a die with two spots.
A cast of dice totalling two.
The number two. A bowel movement (the event or the result).
The number two. A two-year prison sentence.
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
A curveball.
A 1932 Ford.
Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
A table seating two diners.
The amount of two dollars or two pounds.
A twopence coin.
Douche.
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.
The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
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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