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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
deadbeat/ˈdedbiːt/

▶adjective

1 (dead beat) informal completely exhausted.

2 (of a mechanism) without recoil.

▶noun informal

1 an idle or feckless person.

2 N. Amer. a person who tries to evade paying debts.

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