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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Play the Deuce The Irish say, Play the pooka. Pooka or Pouke is an evil spirit in the form of a wild colt, who does great hurt to benighted travellers. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deterioration | Damnify; (aggrieve); do one's worst; knock down; deal a blow to; play havoc with, play sad havoc with, play the mischief with, play the deuce with, play the very devil with, play havoc among, play sad havoc among, play the mischief among, play the deuce among, play the very devil among; decimate. |
Excitability | Lose one's temper; break out, burst out, fly out; go off, fly off, fly off at a tangent, fly off the handle, lose one's cool; explode, flare up, flame up, fire up, burst into a flame, take fire, fire, burn; boil, boil over; foam, fume, rage, rave, rant, tear; go wild, run wild, run mad, go into hysterics; run riot, run amuck; battre la campagne, faire le diable a quatre, play the deuce. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "PLAY THE DEUCE": play the deuce with. Additional references. | |
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| Language | Translations for "PLAY THE DEUCE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | tönretesz vmit (to play the deuce with sg), elront vmit (to chew sg up, to impair sg, to make a bungle, to make a hash of sg, to make a muck up of sg, to play the deuce with sg, to put sg out of action). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ayplay ethay euceday.(various references) | |
Romanian | distruge (abolish, annihilate, blast, blight, confound, crash, crock, cut, cut to pieces, cut up, dash, decay, defeat, demolish, destroy, devastate, dilapidate, disrupt, eat into, eat through, eliminate, exterminate, extirpate, finish, kill, lay waste, make havoc of, Mar, obliterate, overturn, overwhelm, perish, play the deuce with, play the devil with, quash, ravage, raze, reduce, ruin, scathe, scatter, scotch, shatter, shipwreck, sink, spoil, squelch, strafe, subvert, tear, undo, unmake, wreck). (various references) | |
Turkish | berbat etmek (ball up, bitch, bitch up, botch, bring to ruin, bungle, cast a cloud on smth., cloud, crab, fluff, make nonsense of, mess things up, mess up, piss on smth., play the deuce with, ruin, screw up, spoil, vitiate), altüst etmek (agitate, bedevil, clutter, clutter up, depolarise, disappoint, disorganize, disturb, knock galley-west, make havoc of, overset, overturn, play havoc with, play the deuce with, ransack, run upside down, screw up, turn about, turn around, turn under, Upend, upset, upturn, work havoc). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-e-h-l-p-t-u-y" | |
-3 letters: chapleted, peculated. | |
-4 letters: chelated, clypeate, deathcup, eucalypt, heatedly, peculate, pedately, pleached. | |
-5 letters: acutely, adeptly, capelet, chaplet, cheaply, cheated, cheeped, chelate, cleated, cupeled, deathly, decuple, deplete, ectypal, educate, elected, epaulet, heeltap, latched, leached, leeched, letched, patched, peached, petaled, pleated, yachted, ycleped. | |
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