Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

two-bit

Word Rarity Common

Frequency: 5.30 in modern English

Syllables: two-bit
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Costing 25 cents.

American usage; Informal

adj

Insignificant or worthless.

American usage; Slang

adj

Acting on, and producing, two qubits.

Example Sentences

"That was back in the days of the two-bit shave and haircut."
"Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer."
"All your two-bit friends / They're shootin' you up with pills"
"What Pimp was asking me to do was crazy. Off the fuckin' chain. Insane. He was scheming to stick up T.C. and Miss Lady's pool hall so we could pay off G, but a playa like me was getting ready to go to college and put all that two-bit robbing and stealing shit behind me."
"I met a one look girl in a two-bit bar."
"Serious times demand honesty and self-awareness from people in positions of authority and, at the end of the day, political parties giving succour to fringe views about life-and-death matters is a Faustian pact. This isn’t speculation, or a serve of two-bit punditry to fuel the opinion cycle. This is the lesson of Donald Trump."

Etymology

Adjective form of two bits.

Usage

American usage
Informal
Slang

Phrases

two bits 8-bit petty cash pin money small change

Frequently Paired Words

two bits 8-bit petty cash pin money small change

Synonyms

tuppenny-ha'penny ten-cent base contemptible floccinaucinihilipilificatious foolish for the birds futile frivolous idle ignorable immaterial

Questions

What does two-bit mean?: Costing 25 cents.
Where does two-bit come from?: Adjective form of two bits.

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