Deadbeat

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Making successive movements with intervals of rest and no recoil; free from oscillatory movement.
  • noun. A dead-beat escapement.
  • noun. See dead beat , under beat, n.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as beat, n., 7.
  • adjective. 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.
  • adjective. See under Escapement.
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  • noun. a lazy person
  • noun. a person who defaults on his debts
  • adjective. having a damped needle that stops without oscillation
  • adjective. defaulting on one's debts
  • adjective. defeated or exhausted
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  • noun. someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
    • Word Usage
    "I've known about the term deadbeat dad for four years; it's nice to know that someone else in the Cayman Islands is reading about the laws in other countries."
    cross-reference
    dead-beat escapement  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    debitor  debtor  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    deadbeat dad  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    30-year-old  aboud  bath-robe  born again  con-man  
    variant
    beat  
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