DEAD BEAT

Definition: DEAD BEAT

DEAD BEAT

1. See Beat, n., 7.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Failure

Lost, undone, ruined, broken; bankrupt; (not paying); played out; done up, done for; dead beat, ruined root and branch, flambe, knocked on the head; destroyed.

Impotence

Paralytic, paralyzed; palsied, imbecile; nerveless, sinewless, marrowless, pithless, lustless; emasculate, disjointed; out of joint, out of gear; unnerved, unhinged; water-logged, on one's beam ends, rudderless; laid on one's back; done up, dead beat, exhausted, shattered, demoralized; graveled; (in difficulty); helpless, unfriended, fatherless; without a leg to stand on, hors de combat, laid on the shelf.

Servility

Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler.

How the Dressmaker Got Even with a Dead Beat (1898)

Dead Beat (1994)

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Books

• Dead Beat (A Kate Brannigan Mystery) (reference)

• Dead Beat and Deadly (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Expression using "DEAD BEAT": i am dead beat. Additional references.

Albanian

i rraskapitur (done, exhausted, frazzle, prostrate, stale, washed out, washout, whacked, worn out), i lodhur për vdekje (dog tired, dog-weary), i këputur (all in, beaten, chivied, flake out, languid, tired, washed out, washed up, weary, whacked). (various references)

Bulgarian 

капнал от умора (deadbeat), мошеник (blackguard, cheat, crook, deadbeat, dodger, grafter, gyp, hustler, jongleur, knave, palmer, picaroon, rogue, scoundrel, sham, shark, sharp, skin, trickster, varlet, wretch), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, tramp, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel). (various references)

Danish

skraverapparat, aperiodisk (aperiodic). (various references)

Dutch

schrapjesapparaat, gedempt, aperiodiek (aperiodic). (various references)

Finnish

viivoituskoje, varjostuskoje, jaksoton (aperiodic), aperiodinen (aperiodic). (various references)

French

crevé, apériodique, éreinté, équerre � griser. (various references)

German

versager (abnegator, abnegators, failure, flop), verkracht (falls out with, ruined), völlig kaputt (dead), total fertig, stark gedämpft, Schraffiergerät, gedämpft (cautious, damped, dimly, low, muffled, muted, soft, steamed, stewed, subdued, suppressed, understated), gammler (bum, layabout, loafer), aperiodisch gedämpft. (various references)

Greek 

κακοπληρωτήσ (bad payer, welsher), με απόσβεση ταλαντώσεων, απεριοδικό, ορθόγωνο γραμμοσκίασης. (various references)

Hebrew 

שאפסו כוחותיו. (various references)

Hungarian

holtfáradt (dead tired, deadbeat, dead-beat, dog tired, jaded, over-tired, ready to drop, tired to the world, to feel used up, washed out). (various references)

Pig Latin

eadday eatbay

Portuguese

paralelógrafo, exausto (blown, bushed, dead-beat, done, effete, faint, impoverished, jaded, outworn, overwrought, played-out, spent, whacked), aperiódico (dead-beat). (various references)

Romanian

persoanã care trãieşte pe spinarea altuia, parazit (guest, hanger-on, leech, locust, parasite, parasitic, parasitical, pest, sponge, sponger, sycophant, toady), mort (breathless, cold, dead, dead and gone, deceased, defunct, dummy, exanimate, extinct, gone, in the dust, lifeless), frânt de obosealã (dead tired, dog tired, fagged out), frânt (beaten, broken, jaded, knackered, outworn). (various references)

Russian 

успокоенный (appeased), смертельно усталый (dead tired), апериодический (aperiodic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

premoren (deadbeat, overtired, worn-down), iscrpljen (exhausted, played out, washed out, wasted, weary, work-worn, worn, worn out). (various references)

Spanish

paralelógrafo, aperiódico (aperiodic), aperiódica. (various references)

Swedish

skrafferingslinjal, aperiodisk (aperiodic). (various references)

Turkish

perişan (confused, dead end, desolate, distraught, down and out, down at heels, forlorn, hangdog, out at elbows, poor, prostrate, ruinous, run down, scattered, seedy, shoestring, up the spout, wretched), bitkin (all in, all out, beat, broken down, bushed, dog tired, drained, drawn, drawn out, drooping, effete, exhausted, faint, forworn, haggard, jaded, knackered, languorous, overdone, played out, pooped, pooped out, prostrate, run down, spent, stale, tired, tired to death, toilworn, tuckered out, used up, washed out, weakly, weary, whacked, wonky, worn, worn out, worn to a frazzle, wretched, zonked). (various references)

Ukrainian

смертельно стомлений, нероба (bauchle, dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, fribble, good for nothing, layabout, loafer, loiterer, loon, ne'er do well, rambler, scamp, shack, skulk, spalpeen, waster), заспоко�"ний, загнаний (coursed), паразит (caterpillar, parasite, tapeworm). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: deadbeat.

-1 letter: debated.

-2 letters: abated, beaded, debate.

-3 letters: abate, baaed, bated, dated.

-4 letters: abed, abet, bade, bate, bead, beat, beet, beta, dada, data, date, dead, debt, deed, deet, teed.

-5 letters: aba, add, ate, baa, bad, bat, bed, bee, bet, dab, dad, deb, dee, eat, eta, tab, tad, tae, tea, ted, tee.

+1 letter: deadbeats.

+4 letters: decarbonated.