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two-bit
adjective
inconsequential; of no note US, 1932
“Two bits” represented a quarter of a dollar, a small sum; most younger speakers who use the term would not be familiar with its monetary roots.- It was a mad scramble, but we finally tracked him down in a two-bit cabaret somewhere outside of Buffalo, playing with a trio for coffee and cake. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 292, 1946
- What are you afraid of, this dirty two-bit shamus? — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 20, 1947
- You two-bit, trouble-making union louse! — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 225, 1947
- “And I’m telling you,” Hobbs said, “that you’re a two-bit crook.” — Norman Mailer, Advertisements for Myself, p. 129, 1951
- You two-bit bookkeeper, I ought to– — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 325, 1953
- I have the bartender here and a two-bit pimp who has a girl at Reba’s. — Chester Himes, The Real Cool Killers, p. 129, 1959
- Look around today, in every small town and big city, from two-bit catfish and soda-pop joints into the “integrated” lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria, and you’ll see conks on black men. — Malcolm X and Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, p. 54, 1964
- A rotten low-lifed racist, two-bit pig! — Bobby Seale, A Lonely Rage, p. 256, 1978
- “That son of a bitch,“ muttered Dede, back in their room at the Potlatch House, “that two-bit Bolsvhevik son of a bitch.” — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 263, 1982
- Are you telling me that some two-bit auto burglar concocted this whole thing? — Carl Hiaasen, Tourist Season, p. 20, 1986
- I want you to see I’m not some ordinary two-bit fuckup you got on your list. — Elmore Leonard, Maximum Bob, p. 124, 1991
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