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n. One who does not pay one's debts.

n. A lazy person; a loafer.

adj. Not fulfilling one's obligations or paying one's debts: a deadbeat dad.

adj. Having an indicator that stops without oscillation.

n. a lazy person

n. a person who defaults on his debts

adj. having a damped needle that stops without oscillation

adj. defaulting on one's debts

adj. defeated or exhausted

a loafer, sponger, or swindler; especially, one who does not pay his debts. Same as beat, n., 7.

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.

Making successive movements with intervals of rest and no recoil; free from oscillatory movement.

n. A dead-beat escapement.

n. See dead beat , under beat, n.

n. someone who fails to meet a financial obligation

"I've known about the term deadbeat dad for four years; it's nice to know that someone else in the Cayman Islands is reading about the laws in other countries."

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