“deuce”在英语中的释义

noun

1. (card games) A card with two pips, one of four in a standard deck of playing cards.

2. (dice games) A side of a die with two spots.

3. (dice games) A cast of dice totalling two.

4. The number two.

5. A hand gesture consisting of a raised index and middle finger, a peace sign.

6. (tennis, table tennis, volleyball) A tied game where either player can win by scoring two consecutive points.

7. (baseball) A curveball.

8. A 1932 Ford.

9. (in the plural) Two-barrel (twin choke) carburetors (in the phrase three deuces: an arrangement on a common intake manifold).

10. (restaurants, slang) A table seating two diners.

11. (slang, archaic) A twopence coin.

12. (euphemistic, slang) douche

noun

1. (epithet) The Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger.

2. Synonym of devil (“something awkward or difficult”).

   • We had a deuce of a time getting here.