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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
indie
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the indie charts (=of music produced by small independent record companies)
▪ The song went straight to the top of the indie charts.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It remains the Second Coming in the eyes of critics, graduate students and indie watchers.
▪ The police, fire department, hotel, stock brokers, lawyers and gay leagues are among these indie leagues.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
band
▪ The point being made, I think is that the indie bands and football thugs have killed it.
▪ If we were still an indie band I don't think Peter would be as interested.
label
▪ Especially when indie labels are currently faring better than at any time during their history.
▪ Now Homestead are just another indie label and no-one cares.
▪ What makes a successful indie label?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ New labels and executive changes are coming fast and furious, including a new indie formed by Neil Young and his manager.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
indie

"independent record company," 1945, shortening of independent (among the earliest mentioned were Continental, Majestic, and Signature); used of film production companies since 1920s, of theaters from 1942; extended by 1984 to a type of pop music issued by such labels.

Wiktionary
indie

a. independent; from outside the mainstream n. 1 An independent publisher. 2 A work released by an independent publisher. 3 (context uncountable English) A type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic. 4 A person who listens to indie music and follows indie fashion

WordNet
indie
  1. adj. (of pop groups) not affiliated with a major recording company

  2. n. a pop group not affiliated with a major record company

Wikipedia
Indie

Indie is a shortform of "independence" or "independent"; it may refer to:

  • Independent media
    • Indie art, fine arts made by artists independent of commercial fine arts establishments
    • Indie design, for handmade products by independent artisans
    • Indie literature, a book published outside mainstream publishing
    • Indie social action, collections of individuals creating media for change
    • Small press, a book or magazine publisher whose publications appeal to small, niche audiences, and are typically not distributed widely
  • Indie comics
  • Independent business (unique and not part of a chain or larger corporation).
  • Independent circuit, professional wrestling independent promotions
  • Independent church (disambiguation), a church unaffiliated with a denominational organization
  • Independent film, a low-budget film by a small studio
  • Independent soda, made by small privately run companies

Usage examples of "indie".

Indie records and sleep til eleven and not think once of hotels or scrums or the weird way your kidneys hurt after jouncing all day on a bus.

But then, he was traveling from one tropical climate to another, and he wouldn't need a shaving kit -- beardlessness was part of what made Indie men seem younger than their years -- and as for papers, those would all have been transmitted electronically.

Indie films, once the refuge of the auteur, have become little more than a farm system for Hollywood.

Nobody cared about musicianship, innovation, structure, experimentation or stagecraft: all it took was three chords and a cheery melody and these fucking morons were getting indie record deals.

At this grand janglathon, a number of unsigned hopefuls would get to share a bill topped by some more established local names, in front of an audience including several invited representatives of indie record labels.