Deuce
31deuce — I. /djus / (say dyoohs) noun 1. a card, or the side of a die, having two pips. 2. Tennis, etc. a juncture in a game at which the scores are level and either player (or pair) must gain a lead of two points in order to win the game. 3. Also, deucer …
32deuce — 1. Evasion of devil. ♣ What the deuce are we to do? 2. the deuce to pay Trouble. Serious consequences …
33deuce — [15] The underlying meaning of deuce emerges most clearly in its application to playing cards and dice: the number two. It comes from Old French deus ‘two’, which goes back to duōs, the accusative case of Latin duo ‘two’ (English two comes… …
34deuce — deuce1 /doohs, dyoohs/, n. 1. Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two spot. 2. Dice. a. the face of a die having two pips. b. a cast or point of two. 3. Tennis. a situation, as a score of 40 40 in a game or 5 5 in a match, in which a player… …
35deuce — noun /djuːs,duːs/ a) A card with two spots, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards. Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray) b) A side of a die with two spots …
36deuce — [[t]dju͟ːs, AM du͟ːs[/t]] deuces N UNCOUNT: also N in pl Deuce is the score in a game of tennis when both players have forty points. One player has to win two points one after the other to win the game …
37deuce — deuce1 [dju:s] noun 1》 chiefly N. Amer. a thing representing, or represented by, the number two, in particular the two on dice or playing cards. 2》 Tennis the score of 40 all in a game, at which each player needs two consecutive points to win the …
38deuce — n. 2.5 ton truck; medium sized truck for cargo (from “deuce and a halfâ€) …
39deuce — an old English word for two, derived from the old French deus (now spelled deux). The word survives as the name for a two spot showing in dice or a two card in card games. In tennis, deuce describes a tie situation in which a player must win… …
40Deuce 'n Domino — Domino (left) Deuce (right) Tag team Members Deuce …
