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Definition of Deadbeats
1. deadbeat [n] - See also: deadbeat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadbeats
Literary usage of Deadbeats
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)
"Then he said that deadbeats like me, he knew that every day they were traveling
on the cars; he knew the swindlers and the deadbeats. ..."
2. IRS Restructuring: Congressional Hearings edited by William V. Roth, Jr. (1999)
"Tax-debt deadbeats are often child-support deadbeats, as well. The biggest mistake
made by these targets of IRS collection and audit activity is that they ..."
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 (1904)
"Brooklyn Heights R. Co knew that every day they were traveling on the cars; be
knew the swindlers and the deadbeats. 'But you can't deadbeat me. I know you. ..."
4. The Bookman (1903)
"... gamblers, miniature painters, impecunious fashionables, deadbeats and swindlers
who constitute the Sahara Desert into which the millions of the Bines ..."
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