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Definition of Deadbeat
1. Noun. Someone who fails to meet a financial obligation.
Specialized synonyms: Deadbeat Dad
Generic synonyms: Debitor, Debtor
Derivative terms: Default
Definition of Deadbeat
1. a. Making a beat without recoil; giving indications by a single beat or excursion; -- said of galvanometers and other instruments in which the needle or index moves to the extent of its deflection and stops with little or no further oscillation.
Definition of Deadbeat
1. Noun. a lazy person ¹
2. Noun. a person who defaults on his debts ¹
3. Adjective. (context: of an instrument) having a damped needle that stops without oscillation ¹
4. Adjective. defaulting on one's debts ¹
5. Adjective. defeated or exhausted ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deadbeat
1. a loafer [n -S] - See also: loafer
Medical Definition of Deadbeat
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadbeat
Literary usage of Deadbeat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases on Measure of Damages by Isaac Franklin Russell (1909)
"You are a deadbeat. You are a swindler. I know the likes of ye.' He said, 'You
didn't give me twenty-five cents.' The lady that sat next to me set the ..."
2. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1904)
"Where a street-car conductor, on being a*ked for change due to a passenger,
falsely proclaims in the presence of othe»s that she is a deadbeat and swindler, ..."
3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1908)
"... and, without fault of plaintiff, called him a deadbeat, and struck him over
the eye with some instrument, inflicting severe wounds on his head and face, ..."
4. Technology Quarterly and Proceedings of the Society of Arts by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Society of Arts (1907)
"If the governor is not made very deadbeat and rather sluggish, ... When the
governor is made sufficiently deadbeat so as not to encourage pressure ..."
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