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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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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.
Many young people smoke because they feel that they have nothing else to do, or to kill time.
This turns out just a well, since the three bands seemed to prefer hanging out in this room rather than backstage to kill time.
Sketch for the set of the gunsmith's shop where the protagonist buys a gun to kill time.
If it rained, we sat around playing backgammon and Trivial Pursuit and trying to kill time.
He avoided answering every question and produced an interminable drone to kill time and frustrate the interviewer.

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