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What does penny-ante mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word penny-ante? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to penny ante poker.
  2. Played for small stakes.
  3. Trivial.
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He should stop wasting his time taunting Rick Perry with penny-ante bets and put his lucre to good use.
Then opportunity knocks when he and his penny-ante friends decide to go into the bookmaking business.
And for penny-ante warlords, the collapse of Western sponsorship has driven them to religion.
As you say, take away their penny-ante bridge club and they very well might start on us.
We were penny-ante criminals getting something for next to nothing.
Besides, we're not interested in penny-ante crimes like that.

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