indie
[in-dee]Informal.
- 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.
- a movie or other work produced by such a company.
- a genre of music, especially pop or rock, that is independently produced.
- a person who works for an independently owned business or is self-employed.
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- noting or relating to an indie: an indie film producer; an indie video game.
- noting or relating to independently produced music: indie rock; an indie pop group.
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Origin of indie
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Contemporary Examples
Being in an indie band is running a never-ending, rewarding, scary, low-margin small business.
Between the second and third seasons of The O.C., McKenzie went off and shot his first feature film, the indie drama Junebug.
Ben McKenzie’s Journey From Reluctant Teen Idol on ‘The O.C.’ to Sheriff of ‘Gotham’Marlow Stern
November 4, 2014
Now, the actress is back with a trio of standout performances in indie films.
Or, in a field as tiny as the “indie gaming” scene, end up in relationships with the people who make those products?
It about how hard it is to get indie films and adult dramas made.
Historical Examples
Now I had an indie browser running, I needed an indie network connection.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow
It bears the title: Libro primo della historia dell' Indie Occidentali.
De Orbe Novo, Volume 1 (of 2)Trans. by Francis Augustus MacNutt
For an indie artist, the big problem isn't piracy, it's obscurity: no one even cares enough about your tunes to steal 'em.
Little BrotherCory Doctorow
Spelman, who was himself an archer, has illustrated the passage very clearly by a quotation from Arrian, Indie.
The still-living short-footed semi-ape (brachytarsi), especially the muki, indie and lori, possess possibly a faint resemblance.
Was Man Created?Henry A. Mott
indie
- informal
- an independent film or record company
- (as modifier)an indie producer; the indie charts
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Word Origin and History for indie
n.
"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.
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