deuce /ˈdus ||ˈdjus/
倒楣,晦氣;平分,平局
Deuce n.
1. Gaming Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.
2. 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.
Deuce, n. The devil; a demon. [A euphemism, written also deuse.] [Low]
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deuce
n 1: a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two
successive points to win the game
2: the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a
numeral representing this number [syn: two, 2, II]
3: a word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil";
"the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say" [syn: devil,
dickens]
4: one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots