pass-time

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pass-time (plural pass-times)

  1. Obsolete form of pastime.
    • 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, chapter 3, in Biographia Literaria[1], footnote, published 1889, page 24:
      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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