Deadbeat
The term deadbeat may refer to:
- Deadbeat, the stage name of American lo-fi folk musician Jessica Risker
- Deadbeats, the; the stage name of a hip-hop group in Hawaii
- Deadbeat, the stage name of Canadian electronica musician Scott Montieth
- Deadbeat (film), a 1977 film, starring Chris Mulkey
- Dead Beat, a 1994 film starring Balthazar Getty and Sara Gilbert, based on the life of real-life serial killer Charles Schmid.
- Dead Beat (novel), a book of the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher
- 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, a parent that has freely chosen not to financially support their children
- Anchor escapement, a type of escapement in clocks, a variation of which is called "deadbeat escapement"