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  • noun A fan of the television series The X-Files.

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Punningly from X-Files and -phile.

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Examples

  • I was a raging X-Phile until the series jumped the shark with Mulder's disappearance.

    The X-Files: I Want to Believe Trailer Has Arrived! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Sure, IWTB wasn't that great although being an X-Phile I have grown to appreciate it more on the small screen.

    Third X-Files Film Planned, Rumors Of A Reboot | /Film 2009

  • Plus fans can also delve deeper than ever before with “The Ultimate X-Phile Edition” DVD and BD packed with over three hours of bonus features content including an unrated “Extended Cut” of the film with never-before-seen footage seamlessly branched back into the movie plus the all-new feature-length documentary “Trust No One” that reveals exciting secrets about “The X-Files” universe.

    Contest: ‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe’ DVD 2008

  • If you're an X-Phile, you'll remember th eimportance of that song to the first season of the show and the first great Scully episode.

    TV Round-Up: Lost « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • If you're an X-Phile, you'll remember th eimportance of that song to the first season of the show and the first great Scully episode.

    2004 January « Michael in Nashville 2004

  • Last night's twisty episode of Supernatural whetted X-Phile appetites with the first appearance of Mitch "AD Skinner"

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • I'm a total X-Phile, can sing all the lyrics to Bree Sharp's musical valentine to him, and also know that the topic of his (almost) Yale dissertation was "Magic and Technology in 20th-Century Prose and Poetry."

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • As a loyal "X-Phile," I would absolutely love to see another film featuring Mulder and Scully in the works.

    Entertainment Weekly's Hollywood Insider 2009

  • Last night's twisty episode of Supernatural whetted X-Phile appetites with the first appearance of Mitch "AD Skinner"

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

  • As an X-Phile who sat through every single episode of the The X-Files [yup, all nine seasons and the first movie], I have to say that it was disheartening to see a mere eighteen people in the theater for the first matinee of The X-Files: I Want To Believe.

    EclipseMagazine 2009

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