What does two-bit mean?
Two-bit means (US, informal) Costing 25 cents..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(US, informal) Costing 25 cents..
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.
Use two-bit when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Two-bit means (US, informal) Costing 25 cents..
Common synonyms include tuppenny-ha'penny, ten-cent, base, contemptible.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
That was back in the days of the two-bit shave and haircut.
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