"X-Phile" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Punningly from X-Files and -phile.",
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          "ref": "1995, Ngaire Genge, The Unofficial X-Files Companion: An X-Phile's Guide to the Mysteries, Conspiracies, and Really Strange Truths Behind the Show, Crown Trade Paperbacks, →ISBN:",
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          "text": "1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227,\nAnd that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile."
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          "text": "2003, Robynn J. Stilwell, \"The sound is ‘out there’: score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files\", in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70,\nThe X-Files – as any X-Phile could tell you – divides into two kinds of episodes: the mythology shows, which further the overarching plot of Mulder’s search for the truth that is ‘out there’ about the US government conspiracy to conceal the alien presence; and the stand-alone shows."
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          "ref": "2006, Robert V. Kozinets, “Netnography 2.0”, in Russell W. Belk, editor, Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Marketing, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 133:",
          "text": "My involvement in coffee connoisseur (Kozinets, 2002), Star Trek fan (2001) and X-Phile (1997) communities was high.",
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        "A fan of the television series The X-Files."
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        "(fandom slang) A fan of the television series The X-Files."
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          "text": "1998, Richard Corliss, Time, quoted in Peter Bart, The Gross: The Hits, the Flops — the Summer That Ate Hollywood, St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 227,\nAnd that’s enough to turn an X-phile into an ex-phile."
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          "text": "2003, Robynn J. Stilwell, \"The sound is ‘out there’: score, sound design and exoticism in The X-Files\", in Allan F. Moore (ed.), Analyzing Popular Music, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 70,\nThe X-Files – as any X-Phile could tell you – divides into two kinds of episodes: the mythology shows, which further the overarching plot of Mulder’s search for the truth that is ‘out there’ about the US government conspiracy to conceal the alien presence; and the stand-alone shows."
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