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What (who) is deadbeat - definition
Deadbeat
·adj 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.
deadbeat
¦ adjective
1. (dead beat) informal completely exhausted.
2. (of a mechanism) without recoil.
¦ noun informal
1. an idle or feckless person.
2. N. Amer. a person who tries to evade paying debts.
deadbeat
(deadbeats)
If you refer to someone as a deadbeat, you are criticizing them because you think they are lazy and do not want to be part of ordinary society. (AM INFORMAL)
N-COUNT [disapproval]
Examples of use of deadbeat
1. A deadbeat won‘t be affected by the monetary fine.
2. Scholars say Rembrandt could be vindictive, quarrelsome and a deadbeat, but Poort plays him with sympathy.
3. The slaves, I assume, were repossessed –– like a car from a deadbeat owner.
4. State–led efforts to force deadbeat parents to pay their child support may also have to be curtailed.
5. But when reporters continued to press Allard on the link between same–sex marriage and deadbeat dads, Daniels blurted out: "All right, you know what?