Glossary of Colloquialisms (Starting with "X")

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X
1. 8-12 GHz frequency band;
2. 50 Proof (Alcoholic Beverages);
3. Axis (ophthalmological-related);
4. Behind the Goal (Lacrosse);
5. Brigade (Graphical Representation/Army);
6. Christ;
7. Corporation (IRB);
8. Cross;
9. Ecole Polytechnique (French famous university);
10. Ecstasy;
11. Ex-; former;
12. Existing;
13. Exophoria At Distance (ophthalmology);
14. Experimental (US Military aircraft designation, as in X-1);
15. Extra;
16. Extreme (games);
17. Generation X;
18. Halogen (organic chemistry);
19. Horizontal axis in Cartesian coordinate system;
20. Initial Position Error (of casualty);
21. (chat) Kiss;
22. Last name taken by some Nation of Islam members Malcolm X;
23. MPAA Movie Rating for Adults Only;
24. Multiplied by;
25. Northwest Territories (postal code designation, Canada);
26. Perpendicular to Orbit Plane;
27. Personal Mark (or signature);
28. Reactance;
29. Roman numeral representing 10;
30. Special Distribution (Air Force);
31. Special Equipment (Stores 100 code);
32. Strike;
33. Strike (bowling);
34. TCP/IP-based network-oriented window system;
35. Telephone Extension;
36. Transfer (prefix);
37. Unknown Quantity (variable);
38. X Gene; X-Men;
39. Xenophobia;
40. Xerox Corporation;
41. X-ray (aviation letter code)

XLNT
(chat) excellent

XYZZY
(chat, Internet) a kiss that moves you

Xerox subsidy

Xerox
subsidy
xerox subsidy
xerox

Also: xerox subsidy.
Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace. Example:
Mark and Carla of "bOING bOING" (<http://boingboing.net>) started their zine on a xerox subsidy, with Mark working the copy machine while Carla acted as look-out. ("Are E-Zines Returning to Their Paper Roots?" by Gareth Branwyn, "MSNBC's The Site", 1997)

Xnty

Christianity
Xty
Xtianity
Xianity
X-ianity
X-ianity

(abbr.) Christianity

Xplosion
Explosion

Xtasy

X-tacy
Xtacy
X-tasy

Ecstasy

Xtian

X-ian

(abbr.) Christian

Xtra

X-tra

Extra

Xtreme

XTRM

Extreme

[X]

(chat, Internet) kissing in the closet

xenophobia

xenophobic

[zen-uh-FOH-bee-uh]
Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners, or of anything that is strange or foreign.
Examples:
1) After calling for peace in 61 languages and beseeching the world to end racism and xenophobia, the pope made a surprise announcement. ("Will the Next Pope Be Catholic?" SF Weekly, April 26, 2000)
2) In Europe today, it is xenophobia and the political manipulation of fear of foreigners that pose the greatest threat to democracy, or at least to the quality of democracy. (Kofi Annan, "Democracy: An international issue," UN Chronicle, June-August, 2001)
3) The news, the incidents and accidents of everyday life, can be loaded with political or ethnic significance liable to unleash strong, often negative feelings, such as racism, chauvinism, the fear-hatred of the foreigner or, xenophobia. (Pierre Bourdieu, "On Television")
4) In the embattled atmosphere of wartime France, Apollinaire's quenchless appetite for the new was not widely shared. Xenophobia reigned. (Ruth Brandon, "Surreal Lives: The Surrealists 1917-1945")
History:
If you look back to the ancient Greek terms that underlie the word "xenophobia," you'll discover that xenophobic individuals are literally "stranger fearing." "Xenophobia," that elegant-sounding name for an aversion to persons unfamiliar, ultimately derives from two Greek terms: "xenos," which can be translated as either "stranger" or "guest," and "phobos," which means either "fear" or "flight." "Phobos" is the ultimate source of all English "-phobia" terms, but many of those were actually coined in English or New Latin using the combining form "-phobia" (which traces back to "phobos"). "Xenophobia" itself came to us by way of New Latin and first appeared in print in English in 1903.

xx@

(chat, Internet) kisses and earlobe nibbling

xxx

(chat, Internet) kisses; XXX - big kisses

xylography
[zye-LAH-gruh-fee]
The art of making engravings on wood especially for printing.
Example:
Since the Great Storm of 1987 unexpectedly unleashed so much material for woodcutters and print-makers, interest in xylography has burgeoned. ("The Observer", April 3, 1994)
History:
"Xylography" combines "xylo-," meaning "wood," and "-graphy," which denotes writing in a specified manner. "Xylography" didn't appear in print in English until 1816, but it is linked to printing practices that are much older. In fact, the oldest known printed works (from Japan and China in the 8th and 9th centuries) were made by xylography, a printing technique that involves carving text in relief upon a wooden block, which is then inked and applied to paper. This method of wood-block printing appeared in Europe in the 14th century, and eventually inspired Johannes Gutenberg to create individual and reusable pieces of type out of metal. These days, "xylography" can also describe the technique of engraving wood for purely artistic purposes.