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Deuce

noun
1.
A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.
2.
The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number.  Synonyms: 2, II, two.
3.
A word used in exclamations of confusion.  Synonyms: devil, dickens.  "The deuce with it" , "The dickens you say"
4.
One of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots.  Synonym: two.



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"Deuce" Quotes from Famous Books



... if I can puzzle it out yet myself," said Barraclough. "If they've got it, why the deuce do they come and ...
— Hurricane Island • H. B. Marriott Watson
... "The deuce! the deuce! a bad business!" said Jacquet, examining the letter as a usurer examines a note to be negotiated. "Ha! that's a gridiron letter! Wait ...
— Ferragus • Honore de Balzac
... that I wish he would go to the deuce with it, he will leave it to a hospital. Is that ...
— Washington Square • Henry James
... fifty-two," whispered Mr. Malthus. "Watch for the ace of spades, which is the sign of death, and the ace of clubs, which designates the official of the night. Happy, happy young men!" he added. "You have good eyes, and can follow the game. Alas! I cannot tell an ace from a deuce across ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... the mischief is all this?" exclaimed the bewildered Mr Pitskiver; "this isn't the jeanie-ass you promised me a sight of. Who the deuce is this?" ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXLII. Vol. LV. April, 1844 • Various


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