Two Bits Definition & Meaning

Example Sentences

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Last year Coogie Jackson ate some leaves for two bits and got poison ivy all through his throat and innards.

From Literature

“Well, in the Archipelago you take the baby to the namer, and they go into a trance and name the child. It’s a very old tradition—but it’s dying out. Most of the namers are lovely old frauds, and you could slip them two bits of silver and they’d say whatever you want. Not my namer, though. He was a seer. Great-Aunt Leonor said she could tell, because he was poor.”

From Literature

When the seven-beat rhythm of “shave and a haircut, two bits” resounds in the mornings on a car horn through this South L.A. neighborhood, Jackie Jackson or Guadalupe Andrade is likely behind the wheel, child-care providers who live on a one-block stretch of 115th Street.

From Los Angeles Times

"I remember we were putting Vicks under our nose, one lad he coughed and two bits of orange peel shot out of his mask. He had put orange peel in to try and mask the smell."

From BBC

Thurman Munson, Sparky Lyle and the rest of the players were ordered to adhere to the old jingle, “Shave and a Haircut,” even if it cost more than “two bits.”

From Los Angeles Times