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time-suck

time-suck is the alternative form of timesuck.

Meaning of timesuck

Noun

timesuck (plural timesucks)

  1. (informal) Synonym of time sink.
    • Give it a try and explore some of the Paint Shop Pro Web rings. You never know what you'll find. Be careful, though, because this can be a huge timesuck and you might find the afternoon slipping away unnoticed.2006, T. Michael Clark, Corel Paint Shop Pro X Digital Darkroom, page 244
    Synonyms:
    time sink

Forms of time-suck

pluraltime-sucks

Questions about time-suck

What is time-suck the alternative form of?
Time-suck is the alternative form of timesuck.

Words near time-suck in the dictionary

  1. time-stamps
  2. time-stretch
  3. time-stretched
  4. time-stretches
  5. time-stretching
  6. time-suck
  7. time-sucks
  8. time-switch
  9. time-switched
  10. time-switches
  11. time-switching

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Adapted from Wiktionary: time-suck (page history and authors); timesuck (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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