Definitions for deuce

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Spelling: [doos, dyoos]

IPA: /dus, dyus/

Deuce is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in deuce (cdeeu).

Definitions for deuce

noun

1. Cards. a card having two pips; a two, or two-spot.
2. Dice. the face of a die having two pips. 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 must score two successive points to win the game or two successive games to win the set.
4. Slang. a two-dollar bill. the sum of two dollars.
5. devil; dickens (used as a mild oath):

adjective

1. (especially in games, sports, and gambling) two.

Origin of deuce

1425-75; late Middle English deus Anglo-French, Middle French: two Latin duōs (masculine accusative of duo)

Examples for deuce

If you stay here, the deuce a man in all Ruritania will doubt of it—or a woman either.

It's played the deuce in this family, and will go on doing it.

deuce awoke, looked about him, and yow-yow-yowed in doggish relief.

I'm in the deuce of a hole, and there's no one I know here besides yourself.

At this point Dick and deuce, who had been paralleling through the woods, joined us.

Gagniere was stupefied; where the deuce could he have lost her?

They began tagging the word "deuce" around campus and saying “deuce” a lot.

You'd think the deuce was in it!I'd shake the humdrums out of you, I guess!

At deuce the great one double faults to reach match point for a third time.

I can't keep my mind on m' fishing—just wondering what the deuce he's after.