Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of timewasting.
Shaw's dismissal did little to help England's cause late on. The defender picked up the first of his two yellow cards in the 78th minute for time-wasting when preparing to take a throw-in and the second came just two minutes later for a mis-timed challenged on Retegui.
2023 March 23, Phil McNulty, “Italy 1-2 England”, in BBC Sport1 more example
[Chief of the Story Police:] “[…] You are hereby charged with crimes against good and proper storytelling, including the use of outlandish plots, ridiculous characters, silly names, needless repetition—I repeat, needless repetition—too much detail in some places and not enough in others, lack of worthy life lessons, poor dietary habits, unlikely escapes, gratuitous violence, time-wasting chases, and worst of all, clichéd endings, such as it was all just a dream...Need I go on?”
2019, Andy Griffiths, illustrated by Terry Denton, The 117-Story Treehouse, American Edition, pages 142-143
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