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deuce

dus
WordNet
  1. (n) deuce
    one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots
  2. (n) deuce
    a word used in exclamations of confusion "what the devil","the deuce with it","the dickens you say"
  3. (n) deuce
    the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number
  4. (n) deuce
    a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Deuce
    (Tennis) A condition of the score beginning whenever each side has won three strokes in the same game (also reckoned “40 all”), and reverted to as often as a tie is made until one of the sides secures two successive strokes following a tie or deuce, which decides the game.
  2. Deuce
    The devil; a demon.
  3. Deuce
    (Gaming) Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) deuce
    The devil: used, with or without the definite article, chiefly in exclamatory or interjectional phrases, expressing surprise, impatience, or emphasis: as, deuce take you! go to the deuce! the deuce you did!
  2. (n) deuce
    In cards and other games, two; a card or die with two spots.
  3. (n) deuce
    In lawn-tennis, a stage of the game in which both players or sides have scored 40, and one must score 2, or, if the other has vantage, 3 points in succession in order to win the game.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Deuce
    dūs a card or die with two spots:
  2. (n) Deuce
    dūs the devil—in exclamatory phrases
  3. (adv) Deuce
    confoundedly
  4. (n) Deuce
    dūs (lawn tennis) a term denoting that each side has gained three points ('forty all')
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Cf. LL. dusius, Armor, dus, teûz, phantom, specter; Gael. taibhs, taibhse, apparition, ghost; or fr. OF. deus, God, fr. L. deus,cf. Deity)

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary Fr. deux, two—L. duos, accus. of duo, two.

Usage in the news

Deuce Johnson Game-by-Game Stats. espn.go.com

Get the latest news, stats, videos, highlights and more about Cal State Fullerton Titans Deuce Johnson on ESPN.com. espn.go.com

Cardinals offensive lineman Deuce Lutui sees past offseason as a learning experience. azcentral.com

Twin Trees Too's Deuce Juice. blog.syracuse.com

Layfield Energy and Innovative Beverage Group released Drank Deuce , a 2-ounce version of the original Drank beverage. bevindustry.com

Deuce Drops 'Bomb-Ass Music' With 'Nine Lives'. billboard.com

Former Saints running back Deuce McAllister said he didn't feel singled out for extra testing for steroids by the NFL while his appeal of a four-game suspension was going on in court. blog.nola.com

Michael DeMocker/The Times-Picayune Deuce McAllister is no longer a member of the New Orleans Saints. blog.nola.com

The Saints and tailback Deuce McAllister officially will part ways in a joint press conference this afternoon, ending one of the most successful and popular runs in franchise history. blog.nola.com

Deuce Double-Faults Despite Lansbury and Seldes. observer.com

Charlie, Here Comes The Deuce . baseballamerica.com

View this 2007 Harley Davidson Fxstd Softail Deuce Street Action Photo 3. motorcyclistonline.com

I had a fair idea of the level of humor we were in for when the press kit for Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo arrived -- packaged like a condom. mountainx.com

What women want isn't in your pants, it's in your heart, and Deuce 's fellow man-whores, shamed at last, remove the food items they have stuffed down their trousers. rcreader.com

The show headlined with Deuce, plus Another Lost Year, Profane, and Beyond Fate. razor947.com

Usage in scientific papers

This means that if D and D (cid:48) are subsets of Rd with dEuc (D , D (cid:48) ) ≥ 1, and if U and U (cid:48) are events depending only on the metric on the sets D and D (cid:48) , respectively, then U and U (cid:48) should be independent with respect to P.
Geodesics of Random Riemannian Metrics I: Random Perturbations of Euclidean Geometry

If dEuc (D , D (cid:48) ) ≥ 1, then FD and FD(cid:48) are uncorrelated with respect to the measure Q, hence independent since Q is Gaussian.
Geodesics of Random Riemannian Metrics I: Random Perturbations of Euclidean Geometry

For any compact set D ⊆ Rd , let D = {x : dEuc (x, D) ≤ } denote the -neighborhood of D , i.e. the set of all points which are Euclidean distance at most  from D .
Geodesics of Random Riemannian Metrics I: Random Perturbations of Euclidean Geometry

What comes after that is presumably a deuce of a hangover.
Astrophysics in 2006

Usage in literature

I'm deuced glad of that! "Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour" by R. S. Surtees

The man is playing some game, but what the deuce it is I can't fathom. "The Half-Hearted" by John Buchan

How the deuce had this got into my apartments? "Hearts and Masks" by Harold MacGrath

But what the deuce was a poor duke to do with a niece like this? "The Princess Elopes" by Harold MacGrath

Mallett, what the deuce is the matter with you? "The Queen's Cup" by G. A. Henty

How often a word spoken or unspoken may have the very deuce in it either way! "When Knighthood Was in Flower" by Charles Major

Where the deuce is Tinsley? "Romance" by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

It would take a deuce of a time to collect the Battalion together again! "At Ypres with Best-Dunkley" by Thomas Hope Floyd

He's a deuced good-looking fellow, too, and will be sure to do it. "Phineas Finn" by Anthony Trollope

Her frightened beauty is playing the deuce with the people around. "The Danger Mark" by Robert W. Chambers

Usage in poetry
Deuce take the wall, boys,
Deuce take the floor, boys,
Deuce take the jolly floor,
Deuce take us all, boys!
GERTRUDE.
Ho! Hans!--Why, Hans!--You Hans, I say!
Awake!--here'll be the deuce to pay!
For coming guests get fire and lights,
And help me put the room to rights!
Deuce take the fiddle,
Deuce take the fiddle,
Deuce take the jolly fiddle, deuce take the fiddler!
Here goes the fiddle,
Here goes the fiddle,
Here goes the jolly fiddle, here goes the fiddler!
If I depart from this sad sphere,
And leave a will behind me here,
A suit at law will be preferr'd,
But as for thanks,—the deuce a word!
So ere I die, I squander all,
And that a proper will I call.
The Lord knows what we may find, dear lass,
And the Deuce knows we may do &mdash
But we're back once more on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,
We're down, hull-down, on the Long Trail — the trail that is always new!
Great claims are there made, and great secrets are known,
And the king, and the law, and the thief, has his own;
But my hearers cry out, What a deuce dost thou ail?
Cut off thy reflections, and give us thy tale.
Derry down, down, hey derry down.