Dictionary:Ace

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Anglic

Noun

Ace (Anglic: Ace )

  1. The number 1 card in a pack of Imperial playing cards

Usage notes

Reputedly from cards for a fortune-telling game played on Terra prior to their discovery of spaceflight

Noun

Ace (Anglic: Ace )

  1. An expert in a particular skill

Verb

Ace (Anglic: Ace )

  1. Any one-shot/one-strike kill[1]

Usage notes

e.g. ‘I aced him with my seventy-six, right in the eye!’

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