soaper
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of soaper
First recorded in 1945–50; soap (opera) + -er 1
Example Sentences
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It’s one of TV’s best variety shows, an antidote to the last gasps of NBC’s mock-Broadway soaper, “Smash.”
From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2013
The only time there is any live action in the typical soaper, it seems, is Friday.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this soaper about show business, Sad Young Hero Anthony Franciosa performs ably, but the viewer may puzzle over why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts.
From Time Magazine Archive
For six years, The Light of the World, a daytime soaper based on the Bible, did a decorous one-a-day, Monday through Friday, for General Mills.
From Time Magazine Archive
As I said, he is unwittingly the only spontaneous, non-scripted, "actor" in the on-going soaper of his own life.
From Moral Deliberations in Modern Cinema by Vaknin, Samuel
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