X out
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To cross out with a series of the letter X, or with scribbles or lines.
- On a close to final copy the title The Way We Die Now has Now Xed out and replaced with Today. Then Today is Xed out and Now is returned to its place.1997, Don Herron, Willeford, page 415:
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Computing, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Informal To close a window (typically by clicking a button marked with an X symbol).
- When you have selected your desired settings, X out of the window and return to the document.
- “There Are Giants in the Sky!” blasted from my computer, causing me to jump in my seat. I began fake coughing and scrambling to x out of the window just as Ms. Stark peeked up from her wire nest.2016, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kate Wetherhead, Jack and Louisa - Act 1, page 108:
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Slang To kill; cross out.
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- X-outing