verb
- present participle of 'deuce': to tie a game or match at deuce (in tennis, a score of 40–40)
Usage: sports; tennis
adjective
- used as a mild oath or exclamation expressing annoyance or surprise
Usage: informal; dated; euphemistic
Examples
- The match kept deucing back and forth until one player finally won the tiebreaker.
- They were deucing at 40–40 when she hit an ace.
- What a deucing mess this turned out to be!
- That's a deucing difficult problem to solve.
- The score was deucing repeatedly in the final set.