0 a person who is not willing to work, does not behave in a responsible way, and does not fit into ordinary society:
[ as form of address ] Come off it, deadbeat, you're never going to get anywhere.
1 not willing to pay debts or accept responsibilities:
2 someone who owes money and does not pay it, or someone who avoids doing work
He was a deadbeat, pure and simple.
The deadbeat 2:52 (bonus track) 16.
With these two objectives, we aim to achieve a deadbeat control response.
The implication was clearly that the deadbeats are the hereditary peers.
I ask him to withdraw the word "deadbeats".
Still left to consider was the case of misplaced elements, deadbeats, those who neither studied nor worked.
My amendment calls for schools to point them to a better way—not to become the absent fathers, the deadbeat dads of the future.
I have no doubt that there are deadbeat mums, too, but in this country the main problem is families without fathers—and families need fathers.
