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
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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
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I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading.
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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.
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"It's kill-time for the rest of the day," he stated.
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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
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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
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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
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[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
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In a follow up article I'll show you how to create a more useful multi-threaded program than our kill-time sample.
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