Soapie
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Soapie is a noun meaning (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) A soap opera.
Meaning
(Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, informal) A soap opera.
Example Sentences
CHANNEL 7 has censored a lesbian kissing scene in its popular family soapie Home and Away after a viewer backlash.
In terms of its general mood, the average Australian soapie, in comparison with the American soap, is less intense, less subjective, and certainly a good deal less angst-ridden.
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).
Word Forms
- soapies
Synonyms for soapie
Depending on context, synonyms include soap.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include story, sageuk, operette, speechie, operetta, sheila.
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