Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Made of boxwood: as, “boxen hautboy,”
- Resembling box.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Made of boxwood; pertaining to, or resembling, the box (Buxus).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Made of
boxwood . - adjective Resembling
box (the wood). - noun computing, slang Multiple
computers (or occasionally a single computer), especially those runningUNIX .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It's underwritten by MSFT and Intel, so Macs and Lin boxen aren't welcome.
Boing Boing: January 20, 2002 - January 26, 2002 Archives 2002
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Okay, I think that's all the boxen of books unpacked, and homes found for them.
IKEA, ASSEMBLE! rikibeth 2009
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I bought sandwich stuff for lunch, as rikibeth is coming back over today to wallow through more boxen.
i don't mean you're ugly like me, but you're scarred like me. rikibeth 2010
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The geek elite are working on their * Solaris and * BSD boxen. — james
The Jaunty Jackalope Hops Aboard Ubuntu’s Ark - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Still, that's a fair number of games and people like some people I know can worry less about their aging win-boxen's hardware.
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Still, that's a fair number of games and people like some people I know can worry less about their aging win-boxen's hardware.
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Still, that's a fair number of games and people like some people I know can worry less about their aging win-boxen's hardware.
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First boxen I administered for pay were SunOS, later Solaris, with a zombie army of Mac clients and Labtam hardware Xterms.
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I don't deserve it inbox 35, todealbox 9, wonderlandbox 9, mailing list boxen 400+ but I'm going to have it anyway, because it's PRETTY.
February 2009 Alice 2009
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Well that is the problem, Markus wants to have least boxen possible as i understand — i.e. less boxen less racks — less racks — less tech support
8 Way Dual Core opterons with 128GB/ram. « The Paradigm Shift 2006
strev commented on the word boxen
Candidate reindeer with a propensity for pugilism deemed too rambunctious for special occasion duty.
June 14, 2009
seanahan commented on the word boxen
Occasionally used as a humorous plural of box, especially when referring to a computer as a box. As in, "I have two Linux boxen in my apartment."
June 14, 2009