deuces wild

noun

, Cards.

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of deuces wild¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

They're a pair all right, and they'd make a great hand if you was playin' deuces wild.

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This sort of game with “the roof off and deuces wild,” was not good for the morale of his junior officers, mused the major.

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

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