X-phile
noun, slang
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A fan of the television series The X-Files. slang
"1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227, And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile."
Example
More examples"1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227, And that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile."
Etymology
Punningly from X-Files and -phile.
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