deuce
A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cardsA card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
» I've gotta go drop a deuce.
Meaning
16 sensesA card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.
Daus
дво́йкаdvójka
one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
A side of a die with two spots.
Zwei
дво́йкаdvójka
A cast of dice totalling two.
Zwei
дво́йкаdvójka
The number two.
(Canada, US, slang)A bowel movement (the event or the result).
Zwei
дво́йкаdvójka
(Canada, slang)A two-year prison sentence.
A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.
A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.
Einstand
ра́вный счётrávnyj sčot
a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
A curveball.
A 1932 Ford.
(in the plural)Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).
(slang)A table seating two diners.
(slang)The amount of two dollars or two pounds.
Examples
7 sentencesI've gotta go drop a deuce.
I need to drop a deuce.
There will be the deuce to pay.
Gotta drop a deuce.
I'm the second deuce.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English dewes (“two”), from Anglo-Norman, from Old French deus, from Latin duoFrom 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).
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