Soapie
noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
- 1 A soap opera. Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, informal
"1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177, The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three)."
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More examples"1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177, The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three)."
Etymology
From soap + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
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