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deadbeat noun [ ˈdɛdbiːt ]

• an idle, feckless, or disreputable person.
• "a nation of deadbeats who must work harder"
Similar: layabout, loafer, lounger, idler, waster, wastrel, good-for-nothing, parasite, useless article, bum, scrounger, sponger, sponge, freeloader, skiver, cadger,

deadbeat adjective

• completely exhausted.
• "I must go to bed—I'm dead beat"
• (of a clock escapement or other mechanism) without recoil.


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