"BIXen" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "BIXen pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English pluralia tantum",
          "parents": [
            "Pluralia tantum",
            "Nouns",
            "Lemmas"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Computing",
          "orig": "en:Computing",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet)",
          "text": "The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)",
          "text": "Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001."
      ],
      "id": "en-BIXen-en-noun-llHCQfSv",
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, slang) Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "BIXen"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "Humorous modern use of -en from Middle English; compare VAXen.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "p"
      },
      "expansion": "BIXen pl (plural only)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English pluralia tantum",
        "English slang",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Computing"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Bruce Hoult, “Re: Mill CPU public talk 6:00 to 8:30PM September 22 at NNUG, Oslo, Norway”, in comp.arch (Usenet)",
          "text": "The same thoughts go for BIXen. That used to be quite possibly the best place in the world to hang out.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2000, Kevin J. Cheek, “[PLAQUE]: BIX - Byte Information Exchange [LONG]”, in alt.callahans (Usenet)",
          "text": "Some BIXen, as we call ourselves, wonder where we will go. We are the virtual dispossessed, cybernetic nomads on the cusp of searching for a niche for ourselves.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(computing, slang) Users of the Byte Information Exchange (BIX) system, which ran from the mid-1980s until 2001."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "plural-only",
        "slang"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "computing",
        "engineering",
        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "BIXen"
}