Deadbeat
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Deadbeat, deadbeats or dead-beat may refer to:
A lazy and/or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.
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- Deadbeat escapement, a type of escapement used in pendulum clocks
- Dead-beat control, a problem in discrete control theory of finding an optimal input sequence that will bring the system output to a given setpoint in a finite number of time steps
- Deadbeat parent, pejorative term referring to parents who do not fulfill their parental responsibilities
- Dead Beat, a 1992 novel by Val McDermid
- Dead Beat (The Dresden Files), a 2005 book of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
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Film and television
- Deadbeats, a 1977 film, starring Chris Mulkey
- Dead Beat, a 1994 film based on the life of real-life serial killer Charles Schmid
- Deadbeat (TV series), a 2014 Hulu original TV series
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Music
- Deadbeat, the stage name of Canadian electronica musician Scott Montieth
- The Deadbeats, an art punk band formed in 1977 in Los Angeles, California
- Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, an English rock band formed in 2009
- Deadbeats, a record label launched by Canadian electronic music duo Zeds Dead
- Deadbeat Club, a song by the B-52's from their 1989 album Cosmic Thing
- "Dead-Beat", a song by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard from the 2011 EP Willoughby's Beach
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