kill-time

See also: kill time

English

Etymology

kill +‎ time

Noun

kill-time (plural kill-times)

  1. (obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
    • 1817, Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria‎, footnote, published 1889, page 24:
      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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