TWO-BIT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of two-bit in English

(Definition of two-bit from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of two-bit

two-bit
Whatever the case, this otherwise two-bit international player hit the top of the news.
She tells him her dad is a "handsome, two-bit gangster like you," commenting on his lifestyle.
There are two two-bit input lines and one three-bit output line.
An example is the reconstruction of a design history for a two-bit adder digital circuit.
This circuit is a simple design for a two-bit adder.
I'll be in the two-bit class; myself in half an hour.
He saw it as means of becoming a two-bit dictator over a group of subservient colonists.
Knocked off by a two-bit racket boss who thought he was being crossed.
I pulled out a pair of two-bit-straights and passed one over, lighting the other for myself.
Waiting for the two-bit elevator was nerve wracking; hospitals always have such poky elevators.
Smoked two-bit cigars and wore a plug hat.
Now every two-bit planet offered hajench in its gift shops.
This proposed innovation was hotly contested for a while by the adherents of the 'two-bit' theory, resulting finally in a compromise that established 'two-for-a-quarter' as the going rate.
The two-bit word is consternation.
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Translations of two-bit

in Chinese (Traditional)
無價值的, 微不足道的,毫不重要的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
无价值的, 微不足道的,毫不重要的…
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