deuce
/dus/ noun C2- 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.
- A bowel movement (the event or the result).
- 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.
Plural deuces
From the library
“The deuce you say!” replied the marquis, “let us lose no time, then!”
“By the way,” I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, “how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?”
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun.
"The deuce he can!"
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