Deuce

[Jonathan Lighter]

I've a note on this somewhere but can't find it.  I think I heard it only within the past five years or so.  No reason to think it's of military rather than suburban or other origin.

  JL

James Knight <jamesknight at CENTURYTEL.NET> wrote:
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Like that "dropping the kids off at the pool"?

According to my son (LCpl USMC), the phrase is commonly used among
his cohorts. _Is_ there data pointing to a military origin? There's
no sign of it on the forums at military.com.

-jk

At 10:54 AM 1/1/2007, you wrote:
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>Yeah, for some reason the whole "number two" connection blew right by me. As
>for its use, I have been hearing it for at least a few years now within my
>age group (late 20's to early 30's). After some more thought, I hear it
>occuring most often in the phrase "drop a deuce" not "take a deuce," though
>Google has roughly 4000 more hits for the latter. I wonder if this new word
>for poo will stick in the language. Can never have enough.
>Scot
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> >From: Jonathan Lighter
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> >Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 10:38:26 -0800
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> >This is new to me, but surely it's a development of the use of the
> >extremely common phrases "do Number One" and "do Number Two" as colloquial
> >euphemisms for urination and defecation, when speaking to or about small
> >children.
> >
> > JL
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> >Scot LaFaive wrote:
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> >Has anyone done any work on documenting "deuce" as meaning a crap or a
> >shit?
> >I'm not sure how old it is or what its etymology is, but I'm curious. I
> >searched Google Books for "take a deuce" but couldn't find any hits. It's
> >not in HDAS, so now I'm hopelessly lost.
> >
> >Scot
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