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expy

noun

Etymology

From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.

Definitions

  1. Contraction of expressway.

  2. A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an…

    A character in a work of fiction who is a stand-in for or knockoff of a character from an unrelated work or of a real person.

    • I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
    • The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.
    • The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for expy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA