sb. (a.) [See KILL v. 5.] An occupation or amusement intended to ‘kill time.’
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VIII. 397. The more active and lively amusements and kill-times.
1811. Coleridge, Lect. Shaks. (1856), 3. Where the reading of novels prevails as a habit … it is not so much to be called pass-time as kill-time.
1865. Ch. Times, 11 March, 76/1. One of the pretty kill-times which consume modern society.
B. adj. Adapted to kill time.
1897. Westm. Gaz., 25 Jan., 5/1. Play at this very scientific kill-time game [chess].
