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Expy

noun, slang

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

    "I like your novel but your protagonist is pretty clearly a Scooby-Doo expy."

Etymology

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

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