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soapie

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • rhymes with -əʊpi

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noun

Meaning 1

A soap opera.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, New-Zealand, South-Africa, informal

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).

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From soap + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).