Meaning of X | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A placeholder for an unknown, suppressed or hypothetical name.
2. The twenty-fourth letter of the English alphabet, called ex and written in the Latin script.
   letter, uppercase
3. Any mark that looks like that letter, such as a mark made by a person who cannot read or write in lieu of a signature.
4. Ecstasy, a particular street drug.
   slang, uncountable
5. Christ
   informal
6. Cross, crossing.
7. A surname, used by those who have had their identity or heritage, including their proper ancestral names, erased or forgotten.
8. The spot behind the goal.
9. Forming gender-neutral or otherwise more inclusive versions of words, especially Spanish-derived words by replacing both the masculine -o and feminine -a.
   letter, lowercase
10. An online social media network, formerly known as Twitter.
11. The X Window System, a windowing system for bitmap displays commonly used in Unix-like systems.

Equivalents

Examples

“The woman known until now as Witness X has been unmasked after a court ruling.”

“Suppose that Mr and Mrs X have been married for many years.”

“Although the Take Care Clause grants the president significant authority to enforce the laws, the duty to take care does not include a power to forbid the execution of the laws. Consequently, the president does not have the authority to disregard Congress’s declaration of war against Country X. On the contrary, the president has an obligation to faithfully execute the declaration of war, even against their own beliefs and wishes.”

“Malcolm X”

“Two senior USAid security officials were suspended on Sunday for blocking Doge officials from a restricted area, a day after the agency’s website went offline, and Musk posted to X that USAid was “beyond repair” and needed to be shut down.”

“You can find me in the club, bottle full of bub'. Look, mami, I got the X if you into takin' drugs.”

“Tonight the kids will go out and party down in a more righteous mode. Alcohol and not a few tabs of X will be ingested. Club music will throb through big speakers.”

“I'm a love druggie falling for these drug junkies. Come n call on me besides these X parties. It's fucking hard on my body.”

“Kennington via Charing X”

“alumnx, Chicanx (Xicanx), Filipinx, Latinx, Mx, mxn, Tejanx, womxn”

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