deadbeat
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noun \ˈded-ˌbēt\Definition of DEADBEAT
1
: loafer
2
: one who persistently fails to pay personal debts or expenses
See Examples of DEADBEAT
- His friends are just a bunch of deadbeats.
- He was accused of being a deadbeat.
First Known Use of DEADBEAT
1863
Related to DEADBEAT
- Synonyms
- couch potato, lazybones, do-nothing, drone, idler, layabout, loafer, lotus-eater, slouch, slug, slugabed, sluggard
Rhymes with DEADBEAT
accrete, aesthete, afreet, athlete, backbeat, backseat, backstreet, bedsheet, bench seat, big beat, bolete, box pleat, box seat, break beat, broadsheet, browbeat, buckwheat, bystreet, call sheet, car seat, cheat sheet, clipsheet, cloud street, cold feet, compete, compleat, complete, conceit, concrete, crabmeat, crib sheet, dead heat, dead meat, deceit, defeat, delete, deplete, discreet, discrete, disseat, downbeat, drop seat, drumbeat, dutch treat, effete, elite, en suite, entreat, escheat, excrete, facete, Fleet Street, fly sheet, forcemeat, foresheet, four-peat, gamete, groundsheet, hard wheat, heartbeat, heat-treat, helpmeet, hoofbeat, hot seat, house seat, ice sheet, ill-treat, jump seat, kick pleat, love seat, mainsheet, Main Street, maltreat, mesquite, mincemeat, mistreat, offbeat, Ossete, petite, pink sheet, preheat, rap sheet, receipt, recheat, red heat, red meat, red wheat, regreet, repeat, replete, retreat, scratch sheet, secrete, side street, slip-sheet, soft wheat, spreadsheet, stand treat, swap meet, sweetmeat, tear sheet, terete, three-peat, through street, time sheet, unmeet, unseat, upbeat, vegete, volkslied, white heat
2deadbeat
adjectiveDefinition of DEADBEAT
: having a pointer that gives a reading with little or no oscillation
First Known Use of DEADBEAT
circa 1864
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