two-bit en · ADJ
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Adjective form of two bits.
Meanings
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(US, informal, not-comparable) Costing 25 cents.
That was back in the days of the two-bit shave and haircut.
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(US, idiomatic, not-comparable, slang) Insignificant or worthless.
Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer.
I met a one look girl in a two-bit bar.
2011, Toby Keith, “Beers Ago”, in Clancy's Tavern: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.
2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 27:All your two-bit friends / They're shootin' you up with pills
1973, Lou Reed, “Oh, Jim”, in Berlin: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.
2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, The Guardian:
- (not-comparable, of a logic gate, qualifier:quantum computing) Acting on, and producing, two qubits.
Relateds
two bits · 8-bit · small change · pin money · petty cash
Synonyms
tuppenny-ha'penny · not worth a plug nickel · strawlike · nothingburger · duffing · shand · unweighty · contemptible · shitty-ass · mouldy · tripy · garbagey · miserable · shitstained · slight · pissant · picayune · cocking · mucid · naughty · not worth a damn · picayunish · piddly · of no value · nought · not worth a penny · simple · unappreciated · for the birds · cacky · draffy · trinkety · tuppenny-ha'penny · insignificant · inconsiderable · shitey · immaterial · not worth a brass farthing · foolish · not worth a dime · inconsequential · not worth a farthing · suckworthy · dreckish · rubbishy · ineffectual · negligible · petty · not worth a cress · valueless · jabberwocky · sixpenny · rubbishly · pointless · ignorable · cruddy · base · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · drecky · tin-pot · scabbed · pissass · two-bit · wutless · pissass · scummy · not worth hell room · tenth-rate · mean · vain · pitiful · futile · nondescript · floccinaucinihilipilificatious · draffish · trifling · silly · punk · screwy · ticky-tacky · null · no good / no-good · unvaluable · cullionly · not worth a cent · piteous · like a fart in a windstorm · blown · not worth a Continental · vain · wretched · minor · paltry · good-for-naught · toshy · worthless · good-for-nothing · nonvaluable · not worth a curse · not worth a nickel · trivial · goodless · not worth a whistle · meager · for the birds · indifferent · chaffy · triobolar · not worth salt · ten-cent · bastardly · putid · piddling · junky · frivolous · sorry-ass · fucking · shit · idle · invaluable · unimportant · two-bit · crapalicious · worth nothing · no-account · worthless
Translations (12)
ro de doi bani (insignificant or worthless) · pt barato (insignificant or worthless) · bg дребен (insignificant or worthless) · es pacotillero (insignificant or worthless) · bg несъществен (insignificant or worthless) · es de poca monta (insignificant or worthless) · es de tres al cuarto (insignificant or worthless) · pt de meia tigela (insignificant or worthless) · es de segunda (insignificant or worthless) · pt de araque (insignificant or worthless) · pt reles (insignificant or worthless) · th ห้าบาทสิบบาท (insignificant or worthless)