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two-bit

adjectiveattested in dialogue

  • Australia

Costing 25 cents.

adjective

  1. 1

    informalCosting 25 cents.

    That was back in the days of the two-bit shave and haircut.

  2. 2

    slangInsignificant or worthless.

    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.

  3. 3

    Acting on, and producing, two qubits.

Etymology

Adjective form of two bits.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).