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two-bit

[ too-bit ]

adjective

, Slang.
  1. costing twenty-five cents.
  2. inferior or unimportant; small-time:

    a two-bit actor.



two-bit

adjective

  1. worth next to nothing; cheap


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Word History and Origins

Origin of two-bit1

An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805

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Word History and Origins

Origin of two-bit1

C20: from the phrase two bits a small sum

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Example Sentences

By Monday evening, it had been leaked to the blogger The Two-Bit Idiot, who published it on the Web.

A published article compares state sponsored police brutality to the individual actions of a two-bit huckster on Youtube.

What possible interest could she have in meeting a two-bit, half-term governor of Alaska?

The Republican takeover of the House is no less dramatic for having been predicted by every two-bit pundit on the planet.

Any two-bit comedian can stand onstage and spout ignorant ethnic slurs.

Waiting for the two-bit elevator was nerve wracking; hospitals always have such poky elevators.

I havent flown all the way from New York to have a two-bit clerk tell me to wait.

Adrian tossed the nearest lad a two-bit piece and grasped the outstretched sheet.

An' by that time there won't be a two-bit piece left to argue over.

He saw it as means of becoming a two-bit dictator over a group of subservient colonists.

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