- two bits
- two bits "quarter," 1730, in ref. to the Mexican real, a large coin that was divided into eight bits (Cf. piece of eight; see PIECE (Cf. piece)); hence two-bit (adj.) "cheap, tawdry," first recorded 1929.
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