deuce

Examples

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• After the two practice serves, each participant had 10 test serves to the deuce court (the left-hand service box) and 10 test serves to the advantage court (the right-hand service box).

  Academic text (2008)

• Leading 1-0, 15-15, Murray crushed a first serve out wide in the deuce court that was unreturned.

  Blog text (1)

•   All right.The deuce is best.

  Cheyenne Autumn (1964)

• Down to the deuce.

  The Toast of New York (1937)

• Derek pump fakes three times and uses the glass for a deuce.

  Fiction book (1998)

• 15-0 quickly became 15-40, but yet again he didn't panic and pegged it back to deuce.

  Blog text (12)

• REFEREE: Deuce.

  Strangers on a Train (1951)

• Three times in that game he earned break points from deuce; three times he was thwarted—including a sublime and ridiculous cross-court forehand that kissed the line on its way through.

  Blog text (12)

• That game went on for a full 24 minutes and featured seven break points and 11 deuces (and that wasn't Rafael Nadal out there, bumping up his on-court time as if he were getting paid by the hour).

  Blog text (5)

• He won the game after a long rally that ended with a deuce.

Idioms

D

to drop a deuce

• Offensive

3 9.9

To go to the toilet to poop in informal speech

D

deuce of a challenge

• Archaic

9.8

A very difficult and frustrating task

Surface Forms

Etymology