Meaning of expy | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Contraction of expressway.
   abbreviation, alt-of, contraction
2. 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

Examples

“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 […]”

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