Sekirov Dictionary

kill time

noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

The time it takes for something to kill something else.
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(no longer used) 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

verb1

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(informal) To engage in an activity whose only purpose is to make the time seem to pass more quickly; to fill the time between activities.
- She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time.

forms

killed time · killing time · kills time · kill times · kill-times

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