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Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Alternative letter-case form of deuce (“the Devil”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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noun
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: card-games, games
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Synonyms: two
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noun
A side of a die with two spots.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dice, games
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noun
A cast of dice totalling two.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dice, games
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noun
The number two.
A bowel movement (the event or the result).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, US, slang
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Synonyms: number two, big jobs, bowel movement, cack, call of nature, crap, crapping, defecating, defecation, doing one's ease, doing one's easement, dump, dumping, easement, hod, motion, poo, pooh, poop, purging, sharn, shit, shitting, spraying, taking a shit
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noun
The number two.
A two-year prison sentence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada, slang
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noun
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: table tennis
Topics: ball-games, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports, tennis, volleyball
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noun
A curveball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: ball-games, baseball, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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noun
A 1932 Ford.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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noun
A table seating two diners.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
Qualifier: restaurants
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Synonyms: two-top
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noun
The amount of two dollars or two pounds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: slang
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noun
A twopence coin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
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noun
Douche.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic, slang
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noun
The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: epithet
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noun
Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: devil
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noun
one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: two
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Broader terms: playing card
noun
a word used in exclamations of confusion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: devil, dickens
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Broader terms: exclamation, exclaiming
noun
the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: two, 2, II
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Broader terms: digit, figure
Narrower terms: craps, snake eyes, couple, pair, twosome, twain, brace, span, yoke, couplet, distich, duo, duet, dyad, duad
noun
a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tie
History
From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duo. The word was used by Ford Motor Co. in 1932 to describe a two-seater car model.
Compare Late Latin dusius (“phantom, specter”); Scottish Gaelic taibhs, taibhse (“apparition, ghost”); or from Old French deus (“God”), from Latin deus (compare deity).
Across languages
90 source translations are retained for this English entry.
