• Kill-time

    Origin

    en + kill + time

    Full definition of kill-time

    Noun

    kill-time

    (plural kill-times)
    1. (obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
      • 1817, Biographia Literaria Chapter 3, For as to the devotees of the circulating libraries, I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.

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