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kill time [idiom]

to do something that keeps you busy while you are waiting for something else to happen

Example:

Are you really watching that nonsense movie or just trying to kill your time?

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

8. kill time/an hour etc to spend time doing something which is not important, while you are waiting to do something important or waiting for something else to happen:
With time to kill, he took a cab to the centre.

Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

kill time

kill ˈtime | kill an ˈhour, a couple of ˈhours, etc. idiom

to spend time doing sth that is not important while you are waiting for sth else to happen

• We killed time playing cards.

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary - 4th Edition

kill time, an hour, etc.

B2 to do something that keeps you busy while you are waiting for something else to happen:

The train was late, so I killed an hour or so window-shopping.

American English

British English

spending time and time passing

B2 (Upper-intermediate)

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