deadbeat Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
    defaulter.

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Dead"beat` adjective
Definitions
  1. (Physics) 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.

Webster 1913