Definition of "kill-time" [kill-time]

• Something, as a social amusement or a more serious occupation, entered into to kill time or the sense of time; a pastime. (noun)
• Capable of killing time: as, a kill-time sport; a kill-time novel.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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."
• "I dare not compliment their pass-time, or rather kill-time, with the name of reading."
• "The wagon did not move on when the men had finished working the herd as the rest of the day had been set aside for kill-time."