[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Informal.a person who deliberately avoids paying debts or neglects responsibilities.", "Informal.a loafer ; sponger ."]}, {"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["Informal.not paying one's debts or neglecting one's responsibilities:a deadbeat parent who won't pay for college;deadbeat borrowers.", "Horology.noting any of various timepiece escapements act without recoil of the locking parts from the shock of contact.", "Electricity.(of the indicator of an electric meter and the like) coming to a stop with little or no oscillation."]}]