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dice away

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dice

  [dahys] plural noun, singular die, verb, diced, dic⋅ing.
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–noun
1. small cubes of plastic, ivory, bone, or wood, marked on each side with one to six spots, usually used in pairs in games of chance or in gambling.
2. poker dice.
3. any of various games, esp. gambling games, played by shaking and throwing from two to six dice or poker dice onto a flat surface. Compare craps.
4. any small cubes.
5. Auto Racing. a jockeying for lead position between two or more drivers in which tactics are used to pass or keep from being passed.
–verb (used with object)
6. to cut into small cubes.
7. to decorate with cubelike figures.
8. to lose by gambling with dice (often fol. by away).
–verb (used without object)
9. to play at dice.
10. to cause or bring about by gambling with dice.
11. Auto Racing. to duel with another car or cars in a dice.
—Idiom
12. no dice, Informal. of no use or help; ineffective.
Origin:
1300–50; ME dees, dis, dyce (sing. and pl.), dyces (pl.) < OF de(i)z, dés (pl.); see die 2

Related forms:
dicer, noun
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Word Origin & History

dice 
c.1330, des, dys, pl. of dy (see die (n.)), altered 14c. to dyse, dyce, and 15c. to dice. "As in pence, the plural s retains its original breath sound, probably because these words were not felt as ordinary plurals, but as collective words" [OED]. Sometimes used as sing. 1400-1700. The v. "to cut into cubes" is first recorded c.1390. Dicey "doubtful, difficult" is RAF slang from the 1940s.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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