Xbox

See also: XBox and X-box

English

An original Xbox with a controller.

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

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”, in China Uncensored‎, New Tang Dynasty Television, New Tang Dynasty Television, spoken by himself (Chris Chappell), 00:01:45 from the start:
  The Xbox or the Arcade Game Box? That's weird. They knocked off the look of the Xbox with the PlayStation controller.

video game console manufactured and distributed by Microsoft

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.

Borrowed from English Xbox.

Xbox m anim

Declension of Xbox