"expy" meaning in English

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          "text": "The demon-run Raptor News Network clearly parodies that of the American conservative Fox News Network in both rhetoric and appearance, with its anchorman Bob Barbas being a thinly veiled expy of Bill O’Reilly.",
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          "text": "The monsters vary from completely original creations to bizarre expies of famous characters and people, […]",
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          "ref": "2019 March 1, Robin Wilde, “The 1990s: A Decade of Adventure”, in Forge Press, University of Sheffield, page 36:",
          "text": "[…] Thimbleweed Park is an obvious X Files parody with direct expies of Mulder and Scully as protagonists, so a 1990s setting is the natural choice […]",
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