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What does kill time mean?

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Verb
  1. (informal, intransitive) To spend time doing nothing in particular in order that it seems to pass more quickly.
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Sketch for the set of the gunsmith's shop where the protagonist buys a gun to kill time.
A hospital porter, a call centre operator, supermarket shelf stackers and a factory worker, they meet regularly in an all night cafe to kill time.
At the entrance to the medina, waiting near the public writers who seem to kill time in front of their timeless typewriters.
The men kill time collecting the small parachutes from the shells in between attacks and bombardments.
This turns out just a well, since the three bands seemed to prefer hanging out in this room rather than backstage to kill time.
The origin of all these calamities is in the lack of work, which leaves the body inactive while the mind works looking for a way to kill time.

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