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- noun informal Any
time-consuming activity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Imagine the huge timesuck on terrorist productivity LOLalQaeda would be!
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Be warned, though--it's as big a timesuck as TVTropes.
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The internet is a huge timesuck, but it's also a diffusing point for me.
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But I predict most people will come to realize it's a banal timesuck and move on.
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Well, it's a timesuck, but I would if this is like an article in a journal write a response letter explaining why you disagree with them and why you're not going to change that particular aspect.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007
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Guitar Hero II is hereby the most addictive timesuck ever, and that I do not own it is a travesty.
PSA yuki_onna 2007
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The ultimate timesuck design-centric blog will leap off of the screen with a visit by founder Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan to the Windy City.
News - chicagotribune.com Wendy Wollenberg 2012
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But you don't need a big fat timesuck right in the middle of your workday.
My Global Career Michelle Goodman 2010
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Facebook: The new, panel-based interface takes a little getting used to, but once you're acclimated it's the most effective way to throw yourself, fingers first, into the black hole timesuck that is Facebook.
Gizmodo Kyle VanHemert 2010
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Plus there's facebook, or timesuck, whatever you call it and then I signed onto Twitter.
Sticky Crows 2009
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