What is "two-bit"

Usage examples of "two-bit".

That means that every two-bit hustler and hitman will be making some kind of play to take over where they left off.

And so simply the idea, let alone the fact, of not being able to stay aboard a two-bit, slanty-eyed, pea-brained Shetland pony just about had Joe shitting cupcakes.

Stood all I could of a two-bit, white-collar job before I organized the Barnstormers.

Now it was the old man who wanted to stick with Vic and Roger and it was the kid (by this time forty years old) who wanted to jettison them, arguing with some logic that it would be madness to hand their account over to a two-bit ad agency six hundred miles north of the New York pulsebeat.

Not law-type honest -- I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment -- but unto-thyself-type honest.

I'll put up a mint-new double eagle against his plugged two-bit piece that Jesse's right close to where he calls home, over east in Missouri.

You need a typewriter, file boxes for 3 x 5 cards (shoeboxes will do), a cheap letter file, a two-bit scrap book, the use (not the ownership) of a duplicating machine, a telephone which is not in reach of the casual dropper-in -- and nothing else -- nothing!

You need a typewriter, file boxes for 3 x 5 cards (shoeboxes will do), a cheap letter file, a two-bit scrap book, the use (not the ownership) of a duplicating machine, a telephone which is not in reach of the casual dropper-in - and nothing else - nothing!

Your subordinate on a two-bit packet ship under your absolute command.

Now we got guys that sweat, and tough school kids in levis and dirty shirts, and artists and country club drunks and them little gifte shoppes that sell you a two-bit highball glass for eight-fifty.

You are likely to remain a two-bit, or at best a four-bit, ward heeler the rest of your life.