See time-suck on Wiktionary
{ "forms": [ { "form": "time-sucks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "time-suck (plural time-sucks)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "timesuck" } ], "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "English entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 1 entry", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" } ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 490, 500 ] ], "ref": "2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 171:", "text": "It was not just the writing itself that kept me on track but the taste it gave me of the freelance life, with its peculiar mix of freedom and uncertainty. Freelancing means getting up late? Goofing off? Writing when the spirit moves you? That’s one vision of it—and a sure prescription for failure. Early on, I became hyper-vigilant about my time and how I used it. I realized soon that interviews, hours in the library, and other research took as much time as the writing itself, and that time-sucks and distractions loomed everywhere.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of timesuck" ], "id": "en-time-suck-en-noun-jo3ANicd", "links": [ [ "timesuck", "timesuck#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "time-suck" }
{ "forms": [ { "form": "time-sucks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "time-suck (plural time-sucks)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "alt_of": [ { "word": "timesuck" } ], "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English multiword terms", "English nouns", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "bold_text_offsets": [ [ 490, 500 ] ], "ref": "2022, Robert Kanigel, Young Man, Muddled, Bancroft Press, →ISBN, page 171:", "text": "It was not just the writing itself that kept me on track but the taste it gave me of the freelance life, with its peculiar mix of freedom and uncertainty. Freelancing means getting up late? Goofing off? Writing when the spirit moves you? That’s one vision of it—and a sure prescription for failure. Early on, I became hyper-vigilant about my time and how I used it. I realized soon that interviews, hours in the library, and other research took as much time as the writing itself, and that time-sucks and distractions loomed everywhere.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "Alternative form of timesuck" ], "links": [ [ "timesuck", "timesuck#English" ] ], "tags": [ "alt-of", "alternative" ] } ], "word": "time-suck" }
Download raw JSONL data for time-suck meaning in All languages combined (1.3kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-04-29 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-04-20 using wiktextract (4eaa824 and ea19a0a). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.