two-bit

two-bit
`two-bit adjective INFORMAL
not very good or not important

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  • two-bit — adj informal not at all good or important ▪ She s just a two bit movie star …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • two-bit — /tooh bit /, adj. Slang. 1. costing twenty five cents. 2. inferior or unimportant; small time: a two bit actor. [1795 1805, Amer.] * * * …   Universalium

  • two-bit — adjective Date: 1802 1. of the value of two bits 2. cheap or trivial of its kind ; petty, small time < a two bit chiseler > …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • two-bit — adjective a) costing 25 cents Forget that two bit shyster. Get yourself a real lawyer. b) insignificant or worthless See Also: two bits …   Wiktionary

  • Two Bit Monsters — Infobox Album | Name = Two Bit Monsters Type = Album Artist = John Hiatt Released = 1980 Recorded = ? Genre = Rock Length = 34:43 Label = MCA Records Producer = Denny Bruce, John Hiatt Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5… …   Wikipedia

  • Two-bit and variable-bit encoding of four sampled signal levels — ▪ Table Two bit and variable bit encoding of four sampled signal levels sample level two bit code words variable bit code words 1 01    1 2 10   10 3 00 110 4 11 111 See as table: * * * …   Universalium

  • two-bit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., slang, cheap, worthless (see cheapness, uselessness). II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. cheap, inferior, gaudy, *bush, *bush league, dime a dozen, *one horse, *tinhorn, small time, piddling, second… …   English dictionary for students

  • Bit — This article is about the unit of information. For other uses, see Bit (disambiguation). Fundamental units of information bit (binary) nat (base e) ban (decimal) qubit (quantum) This box …   Wikipedia

  • Bit array — A bit array (or bitmap, in some cases) is an array data structure which compactly stores individual bits (boolean values). It implements a simple set data structure storing a subset of {1,2,..., n } and is effective at exploiting bit level… …   Wikipedia

  • Bit (money) — The word bit is a colloquial reference to a specific coin in various coinages throughout the world.United Kingdom and Commonwealth countriesMost familiarly, the threepence coin; the Thrupp ny bit.United StatesTo provide smaller denominations,… …   Wikipedia

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