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A playing card showing a single pip, typically the highest or lowest ranking card in a game.
- You see, Sir, when I look at the Ace it reminds me that there is but one God. The deuce reminds me that the bible is divided into two parts; the Old and New Testaments. And when I see the trey I think of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
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A die face marked with a single dot, typically representing the number one.
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The ball marked with the number 1 in pool and related games.
- Ace in the corner.
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A dollar bill.USslang
- […] maybe two or three twenties, a dozen tens, and twenty or thirty fins. The rest is all aces and silver.
- If they got too many aces (dollar bills) or fives or tens, they turned them in to the vault where they became part of the reserve.
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A very small quantity or degree; a particle; an atom; a jot.
- He will not bate an ace of absolute certainty.
- I'LL not wag an ace farther: The whole World ſhall not bribe me to it;
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A serve won without the opponent hitting the ball.
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A point won by a single stroke, as in handball, rackets, etc.
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The best pitcher on the team.US
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A run.USdatedobsolete
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A hole in one.US
- "Most of the aces weren't on holes I would have liked to have made them on," confessed Colk, who dropped his fifth dodo of 1935 on December 29, which was believed at the time to be a record for most aces in a year.
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To pass (a test, interviews etc.) perfectly.USinformaltransitive
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To defeat (others) in a contest; to outdo (others) in a competition.USambitransitiveinformal
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To win a point against (an opponent) by an ace.ambitransitive
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To make an ace (hole in one).
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Excellent.UKslang
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Asexual, not experiencing sexual attraction.slang
- “I was 14 when I first realized I had no interest in sex,” Jed Strohm, a happily satisfied, romantic asexual from upstate New York, said. “I identified as ace (asexual) and the group leader said I was too attractive.”
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A person who is asexual.slang
- Asexuals are programmed differently, like anybody else on the LGBTQXYZ spectrum, but difference is cool! Difference is perhaps the best part of being queer. Own it, aces!
- Negativity toward asexuality can make emerging aces fear that something is wrong with them.