Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

expy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.62 in modern English

Syllables: ex-py
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

4

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Contraction of expressway.

noun

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.

Slang

Example Sentences

"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, […]"
"[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

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

Usage

Slang

Inflected Forms

expys (plural) expies (plural)

Phrases

Captain Ersatz

Frequently Paired Words

Captain Ersatz

Questions

What does expy mean?: Contraction of expressway.
Where does expy come from?: From a clipping of exported character + -y. Coined by TV Tropes in 2006.

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