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deuce

/dus/ sustantivo C2

En español: dos, iguales

  1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
  2. A side of a die with two spots.
  3. A cast of dice totalling two.
  4. A bowel movement (the event or the result). (US, slang)
  5. A two-year prison sentence. (slang)
  6. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
  7. A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
  8. A curveball.

Plural deuces

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De la biblioteca

“The deuce you say!” replied the marquis, “let us lose no time, then!”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 82 · C1
“By the way,” I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, “how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?”
A Study in Scarlet, p. 10 · B2
“What the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently; “you say that we go round the sun.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 14 · B2
"The deuce he can!"
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 43 · B2

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