kill-time en · NOUN
Etymology
From kill + time.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
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.
1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria, footnote, published 1889, page 24:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| kill-times | Number=Plur | lexicographic |