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kill-time

kill-time noun: something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.

Noun

kill-time (plural kill-times)

  1. (obsolete) 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, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria, footnote, published 1889, page 24

kill-time meaning in Kannada

kill-time in Kannada

ಹೊತ್ತು ಕಳೆಯುವವ, ಕಾಲಯಾಪಕ, ನಿರುಪಯುಕ್ತ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ, ವ್ಯರ್ಥಜೀವಿ

Synonyms of kill-time

Forms of kill-time

pluralkill-times

Origin of kill-time

From kill + time.

Questions about kill-time

What does kill-time mean?
Kill-time means something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
What is kill-time in Kannada?
Kill-time in Kannada is ಹೊತ್ತು ಕಳೆಯುವವ, ಕಾಲಯಾಪಕ, ನಿರುಪಯುಕ್ತ ವ್ಯಕ್ತಿ. See Kill-time meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is kill-time?
Kill-time is a noun.
What is the plural of kill-time?
The plural of kill-time is kill-times.

Words near kill-time in the dictionary

  1. kill-priest
  2. kill-shot
  3. kill-shots
  4. kill-switch
  5. kill-the-beggar
  6. kill-time
  7. kill-times
  8. kill-to-death ratio
  9. kill-to-death ratios
  10. kill-worthy
  11. kill/death ratio

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