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deadbeat
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who fails to meet a financial obligation [syn: defaulter ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context of an instrument English) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation 2 defaulting on one's debts 3 defeated or exhausted n. 1 A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"worthless sponging idler," 1863, American English slang, perhaps originally Civil War slang, from dead (adj.) + beat . Earlier used colloquially as an adjectival expression to mean "completely beaten" (1821), and perhaps the base notion is of "worn out, ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
dead beat \dead` beat"\ (d[e^]d`b[=e]t"), deadbeat \dead"beat`\(d[e^]d"b[=e]t`). a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as Beat , n., 7. [Low, U.S.]
Usage examples of deadbeat.
Mary Emerson was on the verge of becoming the first woman president when she told a reporter there were a lot of deadbeats on Medicaid.
We could locate deadbeat dads, and make them pay back the money their children so badly need.
If she was going to be stuck with dutch treat, or, god forbid, if he was the kind of deadbeat who claimed he had forgotten his wallet, he could damn well get stuffed, as if he hadn't already.
She argued that those Kiwis who remained would have enough to do keeping mutton and fish on the table without supporting deadbeat politicians.
I had no rich clients or any clients at all except for an appliance outfit that had hired me to do a skip-trace on one of its deadbeat customers.
I can't think of a chemi-dealer who offs his deadbeat clients by surgically removing vital organs, but stranger things have happened.