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deuce¹

PRONUNCIATION:	ds, dys
NOUN:	1a. A playing card having two spots or the side of a die bearing two pips. b. A cast of dice totaling two. 2. A tied score in tennis in which each player or side has 40 points, or 5 or more games, and one player or side must win 2 successive points to win the game, or 2 successive games to win the set.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: deuced, deuc·ing, deuc·es To make the score of (a tennis game or set) deuce.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English deus, from Old French, two, from Latin dus, masculine accusative of duo. See dwo- in Appendix I.


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