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語源

From "DirectX box". In use since the announcement of the original Xbox in 2000.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɛks bɒks/

名詞

Xbox (plural Xboxes)

1. (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, 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.

引用

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:Xbox.

別の表記

• (nonstandard) XBox, X-box

派生語

参考

• Xbox Live on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• NES, SNES, N64, GC (NGC, GCN)
• SMS, SMD, DC
• PS

動詞

Xbox (third-person singular simple present Xboxes, present participle Xboxing, simple past and past participle Xboxed)

1. (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.

アナグラム

• Boxx