kill-time
See also: kill time
English
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editkill-time (plural kill-times)
- (obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
- 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria[1], 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.