X-phile

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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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