Definition of Deadbeats

1. Noun. (plural of deadbeat) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Deadbeats

1. deadbeat [n] - See also: deadbeat

Lexicographical Neighbors of Deadbeats

dead tree edition
dead tree editions
dead trees
dead water
dead week
dead weeks
dead weight
dead white European males
dead wood
dead zone
dead zones
deadbeat
deadbeat dad
deadbeat dads
deadbeats (current term)
deadbolt
deadbolted
deadbolting
deadbolts
deadborn
deade
deaded
deaden
deadend
deadends
deadened
deadener
deadeners
deadening

Literary usage of Deadbeats

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cases on Measure of Damages by Isaac Franklin Russell (1909)
"Then he said that deadbeats like me, he knew that every day they were traveling on the cars; he knew the swindlers and the deadbeats. ..."

2. IRS Restructuring: Congressional Hearings edited by William V. Roth, Jr. (1999)
"Tax-debt deadbeats are often child-support deadbeats, as well. The biggest mistake made by these targets of IRS collection and audit activity is that they ..."

3. The American and English Railroad Cases: A Collection of All Cases Affecting by Frank Cyrus Smith, Thomas Johnson Michie, United States Courts, Great Britain Courts, Canada Courts (1904)
"Brooklyn Heights R. Co knew that every day they were traveling on the cars; be knew the swindlers and the deadbeats. 'But you can't deadbeat me. I know you. ..."

4. The Bookman (1903)
"... gamblers, miniature painters, impecunious fashionables, deadbeats and swindlers who constitute the Sahara Desert into which the millions of the Bines ..."

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