English edit

Etymology edit

From X-Files +‎ -y.

Adjective edit

X-Filesy (comparative more X-Filesy, superlative most X-Filesy)

  1. (informal) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the paranormal investigation science fiction television series The X-Files.
    • 1996, Television Guide, volume 44, unnumbered page:
      That doesn't leave room for much X-Filesy speculation about the nature of the universe — yet that doesn't stop Carter from trying to inject some intellectual spookiness.
    • 2012, Graham Johnson, Hack: Sex, Drugs, and Scandal from Inside the Tabloid Jungle[1], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN:
      Spooky posters on the walls of dragon sightings, werewolves in Hungary, and a black and white print of a dead sea monster in Canada. Back in the world of Wayne Phelps but nice and X-Filesy, if it came down to it.
    • 2012, Becca Mills, Nolander, Recompense Press (2012), unnumbered page:
      Maybe Williams really was in the FBI — some secret X-Filesy part of it.