indie

[in-dee]

noun

1. an independently or privately owned business, especially a film or music company that is not affiliated with a larger and more commercial company.

   to work for an indie.

2. a movie or other work produced by such a company.

3. a genre of music, especially pop or rock, that is independently produced.

4. a person who works for an independently owned business or is self-employed.

adjective

1. noting or relating to an indie.

   an indie film producer;

   an indie video game.

2. noting or relating to independently produced music.

   indie rock;

   an indie pop group.

indie

/ ˈɪndɪ /

noun

1. informal

   1. an independent film or record company

   2. ( as modifier )

      an indie producer

      the indie charts

Word History and Origins

Origin of indie¹

First recorded in 1940–45; ind(ependent) + -ie

Example Sentences

There are plenty of scrappy indie thrillers and international chillers that can pick up the slack outside of the glitzy domestic market, where Hollywood horror often gets lost in its own self-important sauce.

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Redford's passing caused an outpouring of grief from the US filmmaking community -- many of whose leading lights got their start at the indie movie festival he created, including Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh.

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Like many who don't follow indie pop music, his landlord Mr Trifunovic said he had never heard of D4vd until news broke about the discovery.

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Indeed, “Hal & Harper” is part of a small but growing trend of indie TV that hopes to reimagine the industry the way indie film did.

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For a generation slandered as sexless and terminally stilted, Sombr has done a hard trick — imbued indie rock with a generationally fresh, fully-articulated sense of young male desire and ran it up the pop charts.

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