Look up deadbeat in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Deadbeat, deadbeats or dead-beat may refer to:
- 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