What is Time Suck?
1.
waste of time
Waiting in line at the DMV was a total time suck.
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Something that's engrossing and addictive, but that keeps you from doing things that are actually important, like earning a living, or eating meals, or caring for your children.
"Ever since I got on Facebook I haven't been able to stay away. I'm spending hours on it each day -- it's a total
time suck , but I can't stop! Grocery shopping and laundry will have to wait.
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3.
An uninterruptable quest to find an answer to a problem that should only have taken less than a few minutes to solve. Solving this puzzle is most often unavoidable and attempts to work around the problem generally add more time and more suck.
Adjusting an ailing carburetor and converting datetime datatypes are my least favorite time sucks.
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