Xbox
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From "DirectX box". In use since the announcement of the original Xbox in 2000.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Xbox (plural Xboxes)
- (video games, trademark) Any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox.
- 2015 June 24, “Top 10 Chinese Knockoffs of Foreign Products” (00:01:45 from the start), in China Uncensored[1], spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), New Tang Dynasty Television, via New Tang Dynasty Television:
- The Xbox or the Arcade Game Box? That's weird. They knocked off the look of the Xbox with the PlayStation controller.
Quotations
[edit]- For quotations using this term, see Citations:Xbox.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]video game console manufactured and distributed by Microsoft
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]Xbox (third-person singular simple present Xboxes, present participle Xboxing, simple past and past participle Xboxed)
- (intransitive, video games, informal) To play a video game using an Xbox home console.
- 2018, Shelley Aggarwal, Signe Darpinian, Wendy Sterling, No Weigh!: A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom, London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, →ISBN, page 49:
- There's a time and a place for mindless activities (we don't need to make them a big deal) but, if done excessively, they don't exactly deliver what they promise. In other words, Xboxing for hours at a time may give you an illusion of rejuvenation but it doesn't truly make you feel rested.
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from English Xbox.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Xbox m animal
- Xbox (any of the home consoles in Microsoft's Xbox product line, especially the original Xbox)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Xbox
Further reading
[edit]- Xbox in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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