There will be the deuce to pay.
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Deuce
//djuːs//
Synonyms for "deuce" (67 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (20)
Related words (33)
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Proper Noun(9 words)
Noun(3 words)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
2 entriescoordinate
5 entriesderived
14 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entrieshas context
5 entriesis a
4 entriesrelated to
9 entriesTranslations
89 translations across 32 languages.
Azerbaijani
1 entries- ikilik noun (playing card)
Bulgarian
4 entries- двойка noun (playing card)
- двойка noun (side of a dice with two spots)
- двойка noun (number two)
- дявол noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
Catalan
1 entries- iguals noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- D noun (playing card)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 平分 noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Czech
1 entries- dvojka noun (playing card)
Dutch
1 entries- twee noun (playing card)
Esperanto
1 entries- diablo noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
Faroese
1 entries- javnleikur noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Finnish
4 entries- kakkonen noun (playing card)
- kakkonen noun (side of a dice with two spots)
- kakkonen noun (cast of dice totalling two)
- kakkonen noun (number two)
French
4 entries- deux noun (playing card)
- deux noun (number two)
- diable noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- égalité noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
German
4 entries- Daus noun (playing card)
- Deibel noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- Einstand noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
- Teufel noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
Hindi
1 entries- दुक्की noun (playing card)
Icelandic
1 entries- tvistur noun (playing card)
Irish
2 entries- dias noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
- diucs noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
Italian
4 entries- due noun (playing card)
- due noun (side of a dice with two spots)
- due noun (number two)
- parità noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Japanese
4 entries- ジュース noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
- デュース noun (playing card)
- デュース noun (side of a dice with two spots)
- デュース noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Korean
2 entries- 듀스 noun (playing card)
- 듀스 noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Latin
1 entries- duo noun (number two)
Malay
1 entries- dius noun (playing card)
Navajo
1 entries- aldóós noun (playing card)
Norwegian
1 entries- toer noun (side of a dice with two spots)
Polish
4 entries- bobek noun (number two)
- diabeł noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- dwójka noun (playing card)
- dwójka noun (side of a dice with two spots)
Portuguese
4 entries- demônio noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- diabos noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- dois noun (number two)
- dois (2,4) noun (playing card)
Romanian
1 entries- doi noun (number two)
Russian
4 entries- дво́йка noun (playing card)
- дво́йка noun (side of a dice with two spots)
- дво́йка noun (cast of dice totalling two)
- дво́йка noun (number two)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- dvojka noun (playing card)
- dvojka noun (number two)
- двојка noun (playing card)
- двојка noun (number two)
Slovak
3 entries- dvojka noun (playing card)
- dvojka noun (number two)
- zhoda noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Spanish
3 entries- dos noun (playing card)
- dos noun (number two)
- iguales noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Swedish
4 entries- djävel noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- djävul noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- fan noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- tvåa noun (playing card)
Turkish
1 entries- beraberlik noun (tennis: tie, both players able to win by scoring two additional points)
Ukrainian
2 entries- біс noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
- чорт noun (Devil, used in exclamations of confusion or anger)
Sample sentences
19 total sentences available.
"By the way," I asked suddenly, stopping and turning upon Stamford, "how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," he said. " A good many people have wanted to know how he finds things out."
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Gotta drop a deuce.
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I'm the second deuce.
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