deuce
/duːs/ noun C2- The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
- Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”). · We had a deuce of a time getting here.
Plural deuces
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“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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