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deadbeat; dead beat
noun- a person who won’t pay his debts, especially one who does not pay child support after divorce US, 1871
In modern use, often construed with “dad” or “parent”. - So you want a financial, is he a deadbeat? — Sleepless in Seattle, 1967
- You sonofabitch fuck. Are you calling me a deadbeat? The money I spent here? — Goodfellas, 1990
- I said Dad was in arrears on his child-support payments, was not seriously looking for work, and had turned down the offer of a very good job. ... “And don’t worry. We’ll light a fire under that deadbeat.” — C.D. Payne, Youth in Revolt, p. 107, 1993
- There’s a lot more money in getting deadbeats to pay up, isn’t there? — Elmore Leonard, Riding the Rap, p. 158, 1995
- [T]hey knew if you let one go, then every other deadbeat on the Strip would think they could pull something, too. — John Ridley, Stray Dogs, p. 53, 1997
- a destitute person; a bum or derelict AUSTRALIA, 1892
- You weren’t so keen on him last election when he reckoned a Liberal Party feller would do some more good for Gubba than that Country Party dead-beat we’ve been carrying for years. — Dymphna Cusack, Picnic Races, p. 22, 1962
- Investigate two-up with an open mind and you will find evidence of suicides, the loss of businesses, the degradation of professional men into dead-beats and “no-hopers”. — James Holledge, The Great Australian Gamble, p. 103, 1966
- An old white deadbeat was waving from his chair by the wall. — Petru Popescu, The Last Wave, p. 33, 1977
- Fucking deadbeat that I am, plonkie fucking half a playboy that I’ve become[.] — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 190, 2001
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