deuce

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Two; a card or a die with two spots; as, the deuce of hearts.

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.

The devil; a demon.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. Arthur Conan Doyle

I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing until we cried. Rob Schneider

what the devil Source: Internet

the deuce with it Source: Internet

the dickens you say Source: Internet

Carreno Busta opened up the game with a slew of errors to fall down 0-40, but Zverev couldn’t take any of the three opportunities, dragging the game back to deuce by missing a forehand sitter. Source: Internet

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