1. kill time - Noun
2. kill time - Verb
3. kill time - Phrase
kill time (third-person singular simple present kills time, present participle killing time, simple past and past participle killed time)
(informal, intransitive) 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.
kill-time (plural kill-times)
(obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. Henry David Thoreau
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books. Robertson Davies
It was a book to kill time for those who liked it better dead. Rose Macaulay
Why kill time when one can employ it?. French Proverb
The best way to kill time is to work it to death. American Proverb
The best way to kill time is to work it to death. Albanian Proverb