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two bits
noun
- twenty-five cents.
Word History and Origins
Origin of two bits1
Idioms and Phrases
see under for two cents .Example Sentences
Blessed old "two-bits" and a "dollar six-bits" are the only woolly things left over from the old wild West.
"Two-bits," said I. And once more she rippled into uncontrollable silvery laughter.
At the time dues to the Society were two-bits a year—not enough to allow a very extensive publication.
Swell car—poor man with no eats, not even a two-bits flop for tonight.
Laws, you could have a million dollars, and old Pete wouldn't take two-bits.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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