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bit1
noun
    1. A small piece, part or amount of something.
      Thesaurus: fragment, crumb, particle, jot, mite, trifle, scintilla, modicum, speck, pinch, moiety; Antonym: excess, lot.
    (Brit)
    2. old use
      A coin, especially a small coin.
      Example: threepenny bit
    (N Amer)
    3. 12½ cents (ie a quarter, a half, and three-quarters of a dollar, respectively). See also two-bit.
      Form: two-bits (only)
      Form: four bits
      Form: six bits
Idiom: a bit
    A short time or distance.
      Example: Wait a bit
    A little; slightly; rather.
      Example: feel a bit of a fool
    A lot.
      Example: takes a bit of doing
Idiom: a bit much (a bit thick, a bit rich)
    colloq
    Behaviour that is unacceptable, unreasonable or unfair.
Idiom: a bit of all right
    colloq
    Someone or something very much approved of.
Idiom: a bit of rough
Idiom: a bit off
    (rit)
    colloq
    Bad manners, taste or behaviour.
Derivative: bit on the side
    See separate entry.
Idiom: bit by bit
    Gradually; piecemeal.
      Thesaurus: gradually, piecemeal, step by step, insidiously; Antonym: wholesale.
Idiom: do one's bit
    colloq
    To do one's fair share.
Idiom: not a bit (not a bit of it)
    Not at all; not to any extent.
Etymology: Anglo-Saxon bita in obsolete sense ‘a portion of something bitten off at one time'; see bite.



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