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deadbeat

ˈdɛdˌbit
WordNet
  1. (n) deadbeat
    someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Deadbeat
    (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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. deadbeat
    Making successive movements with intervals of rest and no recoil; free from oscillatory movement.
  2. (n) deadbeat
    A dead-beat escapement.
  3. (n) deadbeat
    See dead beat , under beat, n.
Quotations
You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.
A.L. Williams
Usage in the news

Groups challenge process of jailing deadbeat parents. timesfreepress.com

Senate race is too close to call and so is the argument about who is the bigger deadbeat . courant.com

It was a memorable publicity campaign, the state's top deadbeat parents displayed most-wanted-style on a poster, with the amount they owed their children emblazoned beneath a mug shot. enterprisenews.com

Deadbeat bosses in Alberta will now be outed on a new government website if they don't pay their employees. globalpost.com

My Daughter's Deadbeat "Gamer" Boyfriend Is Living Off Of Us – Daily Dilemma. gna.com

Too bad some county officials don't care about deadbeat citizens paying their fines. acotrib.com

Bitter Mothers Are Just as Bad as Deadbeat Dads. essence.com

Digging out from damage caused by 'deadbeat' husband. chicagotribune.com

Walsh's son talks about 'deadbeat dad' ads. nwherald.com

Senate race is too close to call and so is the argument about who is the bigger deadbeat. courant.com

"Deadbeat Summer" by Neon Indian. kalw.org

Deadbeat' Illinois serves as a warning for Washington. columbian.com

The dictionary defines "deadbeat" as someone who deliberately avoids paying their bills. columbian.com

Deadbeat dads targeted at casinos. standard.net

As a Social Security-collecting 63-year-old, I really thought it was not too much to hope for that I could finish my life without ever being classified as a deadbeat. lajollalight.com

Usage in scientific papers

A geometric generalization of the discrete-time linear deadbeat control problem is studied.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets

The proposed method to generate a deadbeat tracker for a given nonlinear system is constructive and makes use of sets that can be computed iteratively.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets

For demonstration, derivations of deadbeat feedback law and tracker dynamics are provided for various example systems.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets

In this paper we present a procedure to construct a deadbeat tracker from system (3) provided that certain conditions (Assumption 1 and Assumption 2) hold.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets

The following criterion, known as Popov-Belevitch-Hautus (PBH) test, is an elegant tool for checking (deadbeat) controllability.
Deadbeat control: construction via sets

Usage in literature

We were born to that, and most of us would feel like deadbeats if we were doing nothing. "The Shuttle" by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Can't see why the bosses let two deadbeats like you and your partner have the contract! "The Girl From Keller's" by Harold Bindloss

I'm a social deadbeat. "V. V.'s Eyes" by Henry Sydnor Harrison

The man's been a deadbeat for years. "Class of '29" by Orrie Lashin and Milo Hastings

You are a hypocrite and a deadbeat. "An Arkansas Planter" by Opie Percival Read

The bartender, accepting the situation as generally inclusive, put his hands up along with his deadbeat patrons. "Trail's End" by George W. Ogden

If the deadbeat who made the deal with me wants it back, all he has to do is to produce the money. "The Gold Trail" by Harold Bindloss

A deadbeat makes me sick! "Rippling Rhymes" by Walt Mason

Go along with your old guard, and pick up them deadbeats and sneaks, that don't want to go back at all. "Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) The Deacon's Adventures At Chattanooga In Caring For The Boys" by John McElroy

The advance guard of deadbeats yelled derisively. "Menotah" by Ernest G. Henham

Usage in poetry
A rough old, tough old nut of an old-style hard-case skipper
As ever cracked on sail in a racing Melbourne clipper,
And hung on to his topsails in bad weather off the Horn,
And made a crew of deadbeats wish they never had been born.