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bit
noun- a prison sentence US, 1866
- Now that I was in the money and had done two bits in the pen, I got more respect from the gang. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 44, 1946
- He was sent up for his first real bit when he was 16. — Hubert Selby Jr, Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 42, 1957
- Everybody wants to know your bit, big or small, maybe to measure his hope by it. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 247, 1967
- By the time he was twenty-three he had done four bits in the joint. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 33, 1969
- Yeah, it was the summer of 1967 and I was once again awaiting transfer to the world’s largest walled prison for a new bit–eighteen months to two years. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 7, 1973
- Thirty-six month bit I did. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 20, 1975
- By this time his looks had coarsened some as a result of his bit in San Quentin at the end of the ’50s. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 95, 1990
- Jack Hardy, he worked for a safe company after he did a six-year bit. — Casino, 1995
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 27, 1996
- an interest; an affected mannerism; a role US
- “What a drag!” said Red. “What’s the bit?” “Hangoversville, for all I know,” said her mother. — Steve Allen, Bop Fables, p. 37, 1955
- She had done the champagne-and-stout bit, the Westhampton bit, the French poodle bit. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 71, 1957
- Aly’s been calling her long-distance ever since he left, and doing the flowers-and-jewels bit. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 18, 16 December 1957
- One of the changes of our times is this Prom bit. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 22, 19 June 1957
- Kim Novak is doing the intellectual bit. Reading scads of books. — San Francisco Call-Bulletin, p. 24, 21 November 1957
- a woman, especially when regarded sexually UK, 1923
- [T]hat tidy bit off the telly (and what a dirty little bitch she must be, eh? Phwoaaar). — Christopher Brookmyre, Boiling a Frog, p. 105, 2000
- sexual intercourse AUSTRALIA
- Don’t those society dames have a bit when they get that way? — Robert S. Close, Love Me Sailor, p. 21, 1945
- He just lived it up. Booze, bits. A simple soul. — A. Hunter, Gently Coloured, 1969
- And what’s more, if she is going to have a bit off on the side, she’s more likely to keep it that way, on the side. — Flame, p. 11, 1972
- Like a bit, Sal? — Dorothy Hewett, The Chapel Perilous, p. 66, 1972
- — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 92, 1979
- an activity US
- — Burton H. Wolfe, The Hippies, p. 203, 1968
- used as a meaningless embellishment of the preceding noun US
- In the white-collar canyons of Manhattan, the smart-talk boys are almost constantly “doing” some kind of “bit.” If they want to propose going to lunch, they say: “Let’s do the lunch bit.” If they see a motion picture, they “do the movie bit.” — Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 11 October 1955
- twelve and a half cents US, 1821
- “Two bits!” he yelled to the boy who took the hat. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 228, 1947
- It is customary to give her four bits for the pro in the powder-room. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 221, 1948
- I had to panhandle two bits for the bus. I finally hit a Greek minister who was standing around the corner. He gave me the quarter with a nervous lookaway. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 107, 1957
- twelve dollars and fifty cents US, 1929
- “One and four bits.” — Lois O’Conner, The Bare Facts, p. 45, 1964
- Sweet meat, you wouldn’t be happy, respect me, couldn’t love me if say I became a funky tire changer for six bits a week to support us and whatsit’s name? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Doom Fox, p. 75, 1978
- your home or home area UK: SCOTLAND
- — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- a bullet UK
- — Dave Courtney, Dodgy Dave’s Little Black Book, p. 7, 2001
▶ champ at the bit; chomp at the bit
to be enthusiastically eager UK, 1645
From a horse’s characteristic behaviour.- [D]on’t think for a minute the overlords aren’t champing at the bit it could become a nation of triads. — Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, p. 556, 1986
- Ariel Sharon, a bellicose man who seemed to be chomping at the bit to start a war[.] — Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, p. 418, 1990
▶ pull a bit
to serve a prison sentence US- I thought about Oscar and wondered if he could pull his bit or if he would go back to his parents in a pine box, or worse to the crazy farm. — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Pimp, p. 51, 1969
▶ take the bit out of
to exhaust someone UK: SCOTLAND- Those stairs of yours fair take the bit out of me. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
▶ wee red bit
the glowing end of a cigarette, especially when used as a means of lighting another cigarette UK: SCOTLAND- Ah’ve no goat any matches, but Ah’ll gie ye a wee red bit. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
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