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soapie
n. (context Australia New Zealand South Africa informal English) A soap opera.
Usage examples of "soapie".
The soapies had known about this, almost certainly, but in those days they were somewhat more tolerant.
Marc Vilo, and behind them stood a pair of soapies in their sky blue jumpsuits and their silver-masked helmets.
They were all after him, all of them: Caine, Lamorak, Pallas, Dole and Vilo, and the damned soapies behind him.
All his jitters, all his bitter determination to destroy Caine, all the back-of-the-neck pressure of the soapies in the booth, all was forgotten.