English Explanatory Dictionary

expy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Contraction of expressway.
noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

expy expys expies

Etymology

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

Related words

Captain Ersatz
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