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▪ I. † Indy, Indie Obs.
[ad. L. India: cf. Italy, Sicily, Germany, Tuscany, etc. The pl. Indies, q.v., is still in use.]
= India. Also attrib.
1578Lyte Dodoens v. lxix. 634 Large Pepper of Indie. 1599Hakluyt Voy. II. ii. 81 The Indie-writers make mention of sundry great cities in this Iland. 1647H. More Philos. Poems 181 Indie, Egypt, Arabie.
b. indy blue, the dye indigo, or its colour.
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xviii. (Percy Soc.) 80 A fayre and goodly garment, Of most fyne velvet, al of Indy blewe. a1529Skelton ‘Knoledge, aquayntance’ 17 Saphyre of sadnes, enuayned with indy blew.
▪ II. Indy, n.2|ˈɪndɪ|
[Abbrev. of *Indianapolis n.]
1. Used attrib. and absol. to denote the annual Indianapolis 500 motor race or any of a series of similar high-speed circuit races; also, this style of motor racing.
1956B. W. Yates Indianapolis 500 I. 5 The early engines used at Indy differed from present designs. 1964Wilson & Love Fun, Fun, Fun (song) in Beach Boys Complete (1973) 56 She makes the ‘Indy’ five hundred look like a Roman chariot race now. 1982Harper's Mag. Aug. 54 In Time, Tom Callahan deplored the whole Indy enterprise. 1987Autosport 28 May 26/2 He's now a four-time Indy 500 winner..and he finished fifth, second, third and fourth respectively in each Indianapolis 500 from 1982 to '85. 1988P. Fussell Indy in Thank God for Atom Bomb (1990) 241 No wonder..that the rituals of the Indy world are so strenuously male, macho as all get-out. 1991Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 16 Mar. 25/1 The Gold Coast is locked into Indy fever this weekend with the running of the first Indy race outside North America.
2. Comb. Indy car (freq. in form IndyCar), a rear-engined, turbocharged racing car designed to compete in such an event; also used transf. and attrib. to denote the sport of competitive Indy car racing.
1975N.Y. Times 1 Apr. v. 10/3 Miss Murphy is the only woman to have been allowed to drive an Indy car on the race track. 1979Arizona Daily Star 1 Apr. c12/2 The first on-the-track action by the U.S. Auto Club's Indy-car division and the rival Championship Auto Racing Teams has been completed and nobody is winning. 1993Toronto Sun 17 June 97/1 Bourbonnais and Villeneuve drive for Forsythe-Green Racing, a crew with IndyCar experience and IndyCar aspirations. |