deuces wild


nounCards.
  1. a variety or method of playing certain poker and other games in which a deuce represents any suit or denomination that the holder chooses: We're playing five-card stud, deuces wild.

Origin of deuces wild

1
First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use deuces wild in a sentence

  • In the idiom of Ventura Boulevard, he'd hit 'em with the whole deck, deuces wild.

    The Glory of Ippling | Helen M. Urban
  • They're a pair all right, and they'd make a great hand if you was playin' deuces wild.

    Gullible's Travels, Etc. | Ring W. Lardner
  • This sort of game with “the roof off and deuces wild,” was not good for the morale of his junior officers, mused the major.

  • He laid down two aces and two deuces, which under the cutthroat rule of “deuces wild” he was privileged to call four aces.