<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a person who deliberately avoids paying debts or neglects responsibilities</li><li>Informal: a loafer; sponger</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Informal: not paying one's debts or neglecting one's responsibilities</li><li>Example: a deadbeat parent who won't pay for college; deadbeat borrowers</li></ul><p><strong>Horology:</strong></p><ul><li>noting any of various timepiece escapements that act without recoil of the locking parts from the shock of contact.</li></ul><p><strong>Electricity:</strong></p><ul><li>(of the indicator of an electric meter and the like) coming to a stop with little or no oscillation.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>