Meaning

4 senses

  1. An independent entity.

  2. A car designed to meet the rules on the Indianapolis 500 car race.

  3. (broadly)An open-wheel open-cockpit single-seat racecar

  4. (broadly)A motorcar race that uses this type of car

Examples

1 sentences

  1. It's an Indy movie.

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Origin

From independent, by shortening, + -y. From Indianapolis (“location of major car race”).

From independent, by shortening, + -y.

From Indianapolis (“location of major car race”).

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Forms

plural: indies / indys
Singularindy
Pluralindies / indys

regular

Synonyms

6 synonyms
indy carindycarFormula Indy carFormula Indyindy car raceindycar race

Word family

1 related words
Derivedindy-curious

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
industrializeB2industriallyindustriousindustryB1inebriateinedible

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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