expy en · NOUN · etymology 1
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(abbreviation, alt-of, contraction) Contraction of expressway.
alt of expressway
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expy en · NOUN · etymology 2
Etymology
From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.
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(slang) 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.
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.
2014, Jonathon O'Donnell, “Our Demonic World”, in Robert Arp, editor, The Devil and Philosophy: The Nature of His Game, page 120:[…] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]
2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
2018 February 27, Amy Nash, “You should be watching Monster Factory”, in Concrete, University of East Anglia, page 21:I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
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| expies | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| expys | Number=Plur | lexicographic |