Deuce

Noun

 * 1)  A card with two spots, 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) The number two.
 * 5)  A tie, both players have the same number of points and one can win by scoring two additional points.
 * 6)  A curveball
 * 7) (custom cars) A '32 Ford in plural,  2-barrel (twin-choke) carburetors (in the term 3 deuces, an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
 * 8) A replacement for "devil" in minced oaths

Noun

 * 1)  The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger
 * Love is a bodily infirmity . . . which breaks out the deuce knows how or why (Thackeray)

Thesaurus
ace, best bower, bower, cards, clubs, craps, deck, diamonds, doubleton, dummy, face cards, flush, full house, hand, hearts, jack, joker, king, knave, left bower, pack, pair, picture cards, playing cards, queen, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, singleton, snake eyes, spades, straight, trey, trick, trump

Etymology 1
deux (two), from deus, from   duo.

Etymology 2
Cf. dusius (phantom, specter); Gael. taibhs, taibhse (apparition, ghost); or from deus (God), from  deus (compare deity.)

Pronunciation

 * , (US) SAMPA:/dus/
 * , (US) SAMPA:/dus/

Noun

 * Bosnian:
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 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Icelandic: tvistur
 * Polish:


 * Portuguese: dois (2,4)
 * Russian: двойка
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: двојка
 * Latin: dvojka
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:


 * Bulgarian: двойка
 * Finnish:


 * Polish:
 * Russian: двойка


 * Finnish:
 * Polish:


 * Russian: двойка


 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian: двойка
 * Croatian:
 * Finnish:
 * Latin:


 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: двойка
 * Slovak:
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish: tasatilanne
 * French:
 * German: Einstand


 * Polish:
 * Russian: равный счёт
 * Slovak: zhoda


 * Cyrillic: двојка (2)
 * Cyrillic: двојка (2)

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Polish: diabeł, licho
 * Portuguese: diabos, mas que inferno, demônio

Anagrams

 * educe