Other forms: deuces
A deuce is a playing card or a die showing two. The lowest card in most games, and one pip on a die.
The word came from French deux and it survives mainly in games. Tennis has the best-known use, where deuce is the score at forty all, from which somebody must win two points in a row. Craps has a deuce as well. There is an old euphemism for the devil, which survives in what the deuce is going on, a phrase that now sounds thoroughly Edwardian.
Latin
duo
Old French
deus
Middle English
dewes — two
English, today
deuce
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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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First appears in chapter 8 of A Man Called Ove.
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