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kill-times

kill-times is the plural of kill-time.

Meaning of kill-time

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

Questions about kill-times

What is kill-times the plural of?
Kill-times is the plural of kill-time.

Words near kill-times in the dictionary

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

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