two-bit

Adjective

Meaning

(US, informal) Costing 25 cents.

(US, idiomatic, slang) Insignificant or worthless.
Forget that two-bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

second-class second-rate meretricious piddling footling low-grade small-time tenth-rate drecky tuppenny-ha'penny

Antonyms

premier deluxe considerable select high-toned bonzer
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Related terms

two bits

Examples

Any time I'm not shooting my mouth off to a clichéd, two-bit creature of the night like you, it's because I'm up to something. Jim Butcher

I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz. Clara Mamet

He's probably the single most untalented person I've heard in my life. He's a two-bit pretentious academic, and he can't play rock'n'roll, because he's a loser. And that's why he dresses up funny. He's not happy with himself, and I think he's right. Lou Reed

A lead from a two-bit dealer at a fight last week had brought him to this bar. Source: Internet

Extended Hamming codes achieve a Hamming distance of four, which allows the decoder to distinguish between when at most one one-bit error occurs and when any two-bit errors occur. Source: Internet

Putting them together yields a two-bit counter: You can continue to add additional flip-flops, always inverting the output to its own input, and using the output from the previous flip-flop as the clock signal. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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