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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ452569 ↗
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Deuce, Deuces, or The Deuce may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

Deuce, in the Danger Girl comic book series

Deuce, a character in Shake It Up

Deuce, in the Wild Cards science fiction universe

Deuce Bigalow, in Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)

Deuce Cooper, in the film Ed

Deuce Loosely, in The Sifl and Olly Show

Deuces, a gang in the film South Central

Gaming

Deuce (dice), the side of a die showing 2

Deuce (playing card), the playing card with the highest value in German card games

Deuces (solitaire), a card game

Deuces or Big two, a card game

Music

Deuce (band), a British mid-1990s pop band

Albums

Deuce (Rory Gallagher album), 1971

Deuce (Kurtis Blow album), 1981

Deuce (The D.O.C. album), 2003

Deuce (Beautiful Creatures album), 2005

Deuce (video), a video album by Korn, 2002

Deuces (album), a 2007 album by Charlie Daniels

The Deuce, a 2011 album by Stripper's Union

Songs

"Deuce" (song), by Kiss, 1974

"Deuce", a cover version by The 69 Eyes from the 1994 album Motor City Resurrection

"Deuce", a song by The Cardigans from the 1998 soundtrack The X-Files: The Album

"Deuces" (song), by Chris Brown featuring Tyga and Kevin McCall, 2010

"Deuces", a 2008 song by Achozen

"The Deuce", a song by Eagles of Death Metal from the 2015 album Zipper Down

Other uses in arts and entertainment

Deuces (film), 2017 American crime drama written and directed by Jamal Hill

Deuce (play), by Terrence McNally, 2007

The Deuce (TV series), American period drama, 2017–2019

Military

Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, or Deuce, a 1950s American interceptor aircraft

502nd Infantry Regiment (United States), nicknamed The Deuce

Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, United States Marine Corps, nicknamed The Deuce

Browning M2 (Ma Deuce) .50 heavy machine gun

GMC CCKW 2½-ton 6×6 truck, nicknamed Deuce and a Half, or just Deuce.

M35 series 2½-ton 6×6 cargo truck, Ditto, inherited its predecessor's nickname.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Deuce” as wikimedia disambiguation page. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2005, 1971, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Deuce, Wikimedia and disambiguation can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as wikimedia disambiguation page. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q452569. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2005, 1971 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “Deuce” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.