[Ads-l] deuce

[Ben Zimmer]

Or perhaps it's meant to evoke "deuce" = "crap, shit, act of defecation,"
which has come up here in the past.

https://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2007-January/066370.html

In that thread, Tom Dalzell notes that New Partridge dates the scatological
usage to 2003, with a Howard Stern citation about "dropping a deuce."
Here's "drop a deuce" from 1995 on Usenet.

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https://groups.google.com/g/alt.tasteless.jokes/c/haQmTLgYUKk/m/Q13OYfDQ1yQJ
Richard Parvey, "NEW and UPDATED Canonical List of Rectal Functions!!,"
alt.tasteless.jokes, Feb. 22, 1995
I. Euphemisms for FECES
[...]
40. Drop a deuce
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--bgz

On Wed, Jun 24, 2026 at 1:55 PM Dennis During <
00001bcaf94bd005-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:

> douche(bag)?
>
> Dennis C. During
>
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2026, 12:51 Jonathan Lighter <
> 00001aad181a2549-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Worthless individual; "loser."
> >
> > This is in HDAS but has not been reported in many decades.  Yet how else
> > explain this?
> >
> > "If I'm ever in the same room with that deuce [a prominent politician], I
> > hope he raises those tiny little fists in front me..."
> >
> >
> >
> https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-tries-bend-reality-epic-161832940.html
> >
> >
>

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