Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Something, as a social amusement or a more serious occupation, entered into to kill time or the sense of time; a pastime.
  • Capable of killing time: as, a kill-time sport; a kill-time novel.

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Examples

  • 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.

    Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, III footnote 1 « Unknowing 2009

  • I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.

    Gothic Visions, Romantic Acoustics 2005

  • The wagon did not move on when the men had finished working the herd as the rest of the day had been set aside for kill-time.

    The Settling of the Sage 1910

  • "It's kill-time for the rest of the day," he stated.

    The Settling of the Sage 1910

  • Lord of Warwick; but he was gone to the king's, and hearing of the merry-makings here, I came hither for kill-time.

    The Last of the Barons — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • I went this morning to my Lord of Warwick; but he was gone to the king's, and hearing of the merry-makings here, I came hither for kill-time.

    The Last of the Barons — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • So saying he linked arms, and pursuing our course at a proper kill-time sort of pace, we were at length brought up at the end of Vere Street, along which there was a regular rush of carriages, cutting away as if they were going to a fire instead of to a finery shop.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • [14] 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.

    Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • In a follow up article I'll show you how to create a more useful multi-threaded program than our kill-time sample.

    Latest News from JAVA Developer's Journal 2009

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