two-bit
adjEtymology Adjective form of two bits.
- Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer.
- All your two-bit friends / They're shootin' you up with pills1973, Lou Reed, “Oh, Jim”, in Berlin:
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- 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:
- I met a one look girl in a two-bit bar.2011, Toby Keith, “Beers Ago”, in Clancy's Tavern:
- 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:
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Of a logic gate Acting on, and producing, two qubits.
Quantum computing
- Related terms
- two bits, 8-bit, petty cash, pin money, small change