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| a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc. |
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| dead weight | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a heavy weight or load |
| 2. | an oppressive burden; encumbrance |
| 3. | the difference between the loaded and the unloaded weights of a ship |
| 4. | another name for dead load |
| 5. | (in shipping) freight chargeable by weight rather than by bulk |
dead weight
A heavy or oppressive burden, as in That police record will be a dead weight on his career. This term alludes to the unrelieved weight of an inert mass. [Early 1700s]