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expy
noun 2
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3VERB + EXPY
veiled
EXPY + NOUN
bill
ADV.
clearly, thinly
Definitions
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.
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.
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I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy.
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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
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The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]
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