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time-suck
noun- in a timed competition, a tactic used to fill time or force an opponent to waste time US
- If you ran this as such an obvious time-suck, you’d probably get an abuse voter slapped on you in the 2NC. — Seth Poulos, alt.speech.debate, 21 September 1998
- I still opt in favor of running ASPEC as a time suck. — cross-x.com, 8 November 2004
- a drain on a person’s time US
- By the time a kid gets to age 6, they really aren’t so much of a time suck, unless the parent gets pulled into the “enrichment” trap. — Fianna I, groups.google.com/grou/alt.gothic, 29 December 2006
- a time-wasting pleasure US
- It was a huge time suck, and it was keeping me from doing other, more important things. — Glamour, p. 246, 2007
- How much time do I want to spend on this? Profile building can be a huge time suck. — Emily Vander Veer, Facebook, p. 7, 2008
- Before I knew it I fell into a timesuck on YouTube and it was 2 a.m. — urbandictionary.com, 19 March 2008
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