Definitions for deadbeat

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Spelling: [noun ded-beet; adjective ded- Deadbeat is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 117 anagrams from letters in deadbeat (aabddeet).

Definitions for deadbeat

noun

1. a person who deliberately avoids paying debts.
2. a loafer; sponger.

adjective

1. being a parent who neglects parental responsibilities, especially one who does not pay child support:
2. Horology. noting any of various escapements acting without recoil of the locking parts from the shock of contact.
3. Electricity. (of the indicator of an electric meter and the like) coming to a stop with little or no oscillation.

Origin of deadbeat

First recorded in 1760-70; dead + beat

Examples for deadbeat

When marriages fail, the deadbeat dad is the norm in American society, not the exception.

The sparrow was deadbeat, and was travelling slowly to the north and west on a zigzag course, about two hundred feet high.

In a bizarre twist, the U.S Government has apparently adopted a tactic normally reserved for deadbeat dads on Superbowl Sunday.

Anyway the phrase "deadbeat nation" is going to have a lot more resonance coming out of Obama's mouth than in Rubio's letter.

The claims have led one tabloid to brand Jenner a “deadbeat daughter.”

It caught a lot of people's ears just now when Obama said, "We are not a deadbeat nation."

I knew you looked a deadbeat, but Id no idea I was quite so bad, he said.

The bartender, accepting the situation as generally inclusive, put his hands up along with his deadbeat patrons.