X-filed

X-filed
adj
British
rejected (by a partner), jilted. The expression puns on the cult US TV series on the paranormal (The X-Files) and the notion of an 'ex' partner being filed away. The phrase was used by teenage girls in particular in the late 1990s.

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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