1) American slang 2) American web series 3) Dissipation 4) Do pointless work 5) Giant waste of money 6) Scam 7) Waste 8) Wasteful project 9) Wastefulness 
A boondoggle is a project that is considered a useless waste of both time and money, yet is often continued due to extraneous policy motivations. == Etymology == The term arose from a 1935 New York Times report that more than $3 million had been spent on recreational activities for the jobless as part of the New Deal. Among these activities were c...
trip on government time and/or expense that serves no purpose other than to entertain the person making it.
[v] - do useless, wasteful, or trivial work
noun work of little or no value done merely to look busy