time vampire
nounEtymology From time + vampire.
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Derogatory, Informal A person, obligation, or activity that drains one's time; a time-waster.
- The telephone is to time vampires what blood banks are to real vampires.1994, Davida Jean Weinberg, Reciprocity Reconsidered, page 287:
- TV is the biggest time vampire in our culture.2001, Ted Broer, Maximum Fat Loss:
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- Believe it or not, a "gentle clue" to a time vampire is the equivalent of a two-by-four over the head for most people.2004, Shaun Belding, Winning with the Customer from Hell, page 184:
- The night is a time-vampire as far as taking care of your skin goes.2005, Judy Steinberg, Raechel Donahue, The Ropes: Girls Have the Rules, Women Know the Ropes, page 159:
- That any systematic critique of the capitalist employer as time vampire is thereby short-circuited is plain.2013, T. Ferguson, Victorian Time: Technologies, Standardizations, Catastrophes, page 24:
- Yes, the apps on your computer and phone are the biggest time vampires of all time.2020, Brent Spencer, A Handbook for the Online Student: Learning in Difficult Times:
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction A variety of vampire that feeds off time or potential years of life.
- Do you mean that Jarmyn Thanatos is some kind of a— a time vampire?1997, Brad Strickland, John Bellairs, The Bell, the Book and the Spellbinder:
- “I'm a time vampire,” Loretta Vampireclanso-called-jiangshi said. “I can take time from people, or give it away.”2017, Emily Martha Sorensen, Trials of a Teenage Werevulture:
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- But I was laying low, and vampires can't always be choosers, even time vampires.2023, Eileen Merriman, Time's Raven:
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- energy vampire