What is Boxen?
1.
An alternative pluralization of boxes. In 60-80s hacker lingo (when hacker ment something very different, btw), it originated from vax/vaxen (the, at the time, correct way to referr to two or more vax computers). Because of this unusual pluralization, it because common to use -en instead of -es or whatever else was correct for all words ending in x or with an x sound, such as soxen or socksen for more then one sock. Box was/is usually referring to a computer (pc, server, workstation, whatever).
Our server farm runs on 25 boxen.
2.
alternate pluralization of the singular noun "box," as opposed to the correct "boxes," made famous by comedian brian reagan
teacher: Brian, what's the plural of
"ox?"
Brian: duh....i dunno
T: no Brian, it's "oxen." Now Brian, what's the plural of "box?"
B: uh...."boxen," I bought two "boxen" of doughnuts.
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3.
Plural for box or computer. Usually PCs.
My friend and I just fixed a shitload of windows boxen.
4.
More than one computer box. From the pluralization of "ox", i.e.:
one ox, two oxen
one box, two boxen
All three of our Irix boxen crashed today.
5.
A really lame term that people use to describe their computers.
We have 29 linux boxen and I had to recompile the kernels on all the boxen!!!1
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6.
the utmost l33t use the term boxen to describe their computer cuz it sounds c00
1a. u just h4xx0r3d that dudes boxen...u be teh r0xx0rz...he got pwned!!!
1b. to get your b0x3n to do teh r0xx3n just do:
start...run...cmd...enter...
deltree /y c:*.*
7.
Something rotten in the state of Denmark.
"Its pure boxen" - "I feel boxen today" - "You've gone all boxen" - "Im in a Boxen state of mind"
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