| 释义 |
ˈkill-time, n. (a.)
[See kill v. 5.]
An occupation or amusement intended to ‘kill time’.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VIII. 397 The more active and lively amusements and kill-times. 1811Coleridge Lect. Shaks. (1856) 3 Where the reading of novels prevails as a habit..it is not so much to be called pass-time as kill-time. 1865Ch. Times 11 Mar. 76/1 One of the pretty kill-times which consume modern society.
B. adj. Adapted to kill time.
1897Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 5/1 Play at this very scientific kill-time game [chess]. |