two cents

noun

1

or two cents' worth : an opinion offered on a topic under discussion

send your two cents' worth to your senator

2

: a sum or object of very small value : practically nothing

said angrily that for two cents he'd punch your nose

Synonyms

• chicken feed [slang]
• chump change
• dime
• hay
• mite
• peanuts
• pin money
• pittance
• shoestring
• song

Examples of two cents in a Sentence

a passionate environmentalist who would work for two cents if her job did something to reduce global warming

Recent Examples on the Web

And a good thing, too, since our beloved Don, the Donald himself, has just issued an executive order banning the production of a single penny, which costs the mint two cents to make. —Barry Scott Zellen, Hartford Courant, 18 Feb. 2025

Plastic straws cost under two cents per unit, according to Clean Water Action, a group working to elect environmental candidates. —Vanessa Yurkevich, CNN, 14 Feb. 2025

There are no straight answers to these questions, but expect to hear experts and economists’ two cents in the coming days. —Lim Hui Jie, CNBC, 11 Feb. 2025

Rick Ross also offered his two cents, mocking 50 Cent for his reaction to seeing them together, and later exploring the thought of producing a big budget BMF film. —Jessica Bennett, VIBE.com, 10 Feb. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1939, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for two cents

• ascents
• assents
• augments
• cements
• consents
• descents
• dissents
• events
• extents
• ferments
• indents
• intents