Definitions for deadbeats

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deadbeats dead·beat

Spelling: [noun ded-beet; adjective ded- Deadbeats is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 245 anagrams from letters in deadbeats (aabddeest).

Definitions for deadbeats

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 deadbeats

First recorded in 1760-70; dead + beat

Examples for deadbeats

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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