"kill-time" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From kill + time.",
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      "form": "kill-times",
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          "ref": "1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria, footnote, published 1889, page 24:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably."
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          "agreeably",
          "agreeably"
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        "(obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably."
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        {
          "word": "amusement"
        },
        {
          "word": "diversion"
        },
        {
          "word": "hobby"
        },
        {
          "word": "pastime"
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        {
          "word": "sport"
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  "word": "kill-time"
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  "etymology_text": "From kill + time.",
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          "ref": "1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria, footnote, published 1889, page 24:",
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        "(obsolete) Something which amuses, and serves to make time pass agreeably."
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    {
      "word": "amusement"
    },
    {
      "word": "diversion"
    },
    {
      "word": "hobby"
    },
    {
      "word": "pastime"
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    {
      "word": "sport"
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