soapie means A soap opera. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From soap + -ie (“diminutive suffix”).
noun
- A soap opera.“1988, Gunther Kress, Communication and Culture, New South Wales University Press, page 177,
The conventions include […] impossibly complicated interrelationships (most characters in soapies are either related or married or have slept together, and in celebrated instances, all three).”