deuce

noun

1. A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

   “You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.”

2. A side of a die with two spots.
3. A cast of dice totalling two.
4. (Canada, US, slang)The number two.
5. (Canada, slang)The number two.

   “Bisexual male, 28, doing a deuce in a segregated housing unit due to positive HIV test result, seeks correspondence from both genders.”

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.
9. A 1932 Ford.

   “And she was blinded by the light/Oh, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night.”

   “It belonged to “the 1932 guy,” who had four or five Deuces sitting in his yard.”

10. (in-plural)Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
11. (slang)A table seating two diners.
12. (archaic, slang)A twopence coin.

    “It was a shame of the chalk-takers to take their fee without even scoring one little mark; but chalk-takers are inexorable and must be paid their twopence. 'Down with your deuces', was the demand after each pair of birds had competed.”

13. (euphemistic, slang)Douche.
14. The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

    “Love is a bodily infirmity […] which breaks out the deuce knows how or why”

    “To sit, staring at those fixed glazed eyes, in silence for a moment, would play, Scrooge felt, the very deuce with him.”

    “"Why, Job, you old son of a gun, where the deuce have we got to now - eh?"”

    “Still bemused by the inexplicable apparition of Podson on that spot, Bradly growled, "How the dooce did you get here?"”

15. Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).

    “We had a deuce of a time getting here.”

name

1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of deuce (“the Devil”).

   ““I should not allow any one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it—walk in!” The “walk in,” was uttered with closed teeth and expressed the sentiment, “Go to the Deuce!””

   ““How in the Deuce’s name can they set up correctly from copy like that?” demanded he, in a fury.”

   “THE Dickens Christmas has gone to the Deuce. Dickens probably did as much for the humanity of his time as most men, and certainly did more for Christmas than any man living or dead. Yet the Christmas he created has been allowed to become moribund. Its days are numbered, and the numbers are only the Christmas numbers. The ghost of his Christmas stalks through their pages.”