Third person singular of 'dice'—to play games with dice, or to cut food into small cube-shaped pieces.
From 'dice' (plural of die, from Latin 'datum'). The verb form emerged as dice gaming became common in English, and the culinary meaning developed when kitchen techniques were verbalized.
The phrase 'dices with danger' became popular in English to mean 'risks something important,' originating from the unpredictability of dice gambling—showing how gaming vocabulary influenced everyday speech.
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