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Deuce

noun

A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number. Synonyms: 2, II, two.

A word used in exclamations of confusion. Synonyms: devil, dickens. "The deuce with it" , "The dickens you say"

One of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots. Synonym: two.

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"Deuce" Quotes from Famous Books

... Plenippo," said Treenail. "But, Splinter, my man, now since the enemy have occupied the dike in front, how the deuce shall we get back into the river, tell ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... planes. Mine and one belonging to the school, and one that belongs to a fellow from Toronto. It is a peach, and he thinks he can beat me in a race. We are going to try it out some day if we can ever get up without an instructor. They are awful strict here. I will have a deuce of a time if they ...

— Battling the Clouds - or, For a Comrade's Honor • Captain Frank Cobb

... his eyes, he tried to recall the bright, animated face which had so lately bent anxiously above him. "She tarries long," he said at last, beginning to grow uneasy. "I wonder how far it is; and where the deuce can this old Hagar be, of whom ...

— Maggie Miller • Mary J. Holmes

... right hand to ride, only it wouldn't carry him. I can't make horses. Harry brought home that brown mare on Tuesday with an overreach that she won't get over this season. What the deuce they do with their horses to knock them about so, I can't understand. I've killed horses in my time, and ridden them to a stand-still, but I never bruised them and battered them about as ...

— Phineas Redux • Anthony Trollope

... himself, he had slipped from the easy-going, casual tone into one that was becoming persuasive, apologetic, strenuous. Although the day was not particularly warm, he began to perspire a little; and he repeated the words over to himself, "I understand you." What the deuce did the rector know? He had somehow the air of knowing everything—more than Mr. Plimpton did. And Mr. Plimpton was beginning to have the unusual and most disagreeable feeling of having been weighed in the balance ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

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