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deuce

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deuce
1. 
a. a playing card or dice with two pips or spots; two
b. a throw of two in dice
2. Tennis a tied score (in tennis 40-all) that requires one player to gain two successive points to win the game


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He couldn't play any longer at innocence; so how the deuce would he get out of it?
Turn Of The Screw by James, Henry View in context
I wished a round score of men--in case of natives, buccaneers, or the odious French--and I had the worry of the deuce itself to find so much as half a dozen, till the most remarkable stroke of fortune brought me the very man that I required.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
He passed, and I went on; a few steps, and I turned: a sliding sound and an exclamation of "What the deuce is to do now?
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
 
 
 
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