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Deuce (Noun)

The cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number.

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure.

The tennis player's serve was an ace, but her opponent's return was a deuce.
The dealer dealt two cards to each player, making the total number of cards in play a deuce.
The clock struck two, and the deuce on the clock face seemed to stare back at me.
In the game of dice, rolling a deuce was the worst possible outcome.
The score was tied at deuce in the fifth set, and the crowd was on the edge of their seats.

A word used in exclamations of confusion; "what the devil"; "the deuce with it"; "the dickens you say".

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.

One of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots.

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

A tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game.

Nouns denoting natural processes.

The server's weak return set up her opponent to break, and she eventually did so, emerging from deuce to win the game.
With the score at deuce, Williams showed incredible poise under pressure, using a forehand winner to capture the point and ultimately the game.
Deuce became the standard phrase at Wimbledon that summer as spectators saw the battle-hardened champion locked in thrilling tussles on her path to victory.
Djokovic slipped from advantage to deuce before capitalizing on Nadal's forced error, putting himself back on serve and steadying the match.
Venus fell to deuce again and trailed, her face flushed from a fight, her shot losing depth.