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Bret Maverick throws an ace-deuce. [2]

SOURCE REFERENCES

01. Urban Dictionary, ace deuce Retrieved July 18, 2009

02. Maverick, War of the Silver Kings (1957), Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.

ace-deuce or acey-deucie

 

The roll of a one and two in craps, a losing roll. [1]

 

 

War of the Silver Kings: An inebriated Joshua Thayer introduced himself as an “ace-deuce” to Bret Maverick, meaning "a lost cause." Bret responded by throwing an ace-deuce with a pair of bar dice and, turning them over, exposed an eleven and remarked, “There’s always a natural on the bottom.”[2]

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