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dead beat

adjective

Marilyn Johnson explored the subculture of obituary scribes in her wonderful 2006 book, The Dead Beat.

Naposki, a dead-beat dad who squandered his NFL salary long ago, was desperately looking for a big payday.

The flock must have been dead beat, by the time they got here.

"You're nigh dead beat, both on you," he said, sympathetically.

No, I didn't notice it, but I was so dead beat that I simply flung myself down and slept like a log.

It would have been a dead beat across the sands to Cuxhaven, while it was a fair wind straight out to the Eider River.

McKenna, dead-beat, gained the outlying logs and fell as he reached solid earth.

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