Boxen

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -É’ksÉ™n

From Middle English boxen, replacing earlier bixen, from Old English byxen ("made of boxwood"), equivalent to box + -en.

Full definition of boxen

Adjective

1. Made of boxwood.
2. Resembling box (the wood).

box + -en

A nonstandard plural of box formed by analogy with oxen. The standard plural of box is boxes; -en is no longer a plural in standard use. See -en for details.

Noun

1. (computing, slang) Multiple computers (or occasionally a single computer), especially those running UNIX.
• 1996, Siu Ha Vivian Chu, DEC vt320 → linux boxen in comp.os.linux.networkingi can't seem to find any how-to regarding connecting a terminal to a linux boxen via parallel port...
• 2002, Gregory Seidman, serving debian to redhat boxen in muc.lists.debian.userFurthermore, it is necessary that all four Linux boxen have the same development environment...