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soundies

soundies is the plural of soundie.

Meaning of soundie

Noun

soundie (plural soundies)

  1. A short musical film of the 1940s, a precursor to the music video.
    • Terenzio, MacGillivray, and Okudo identify this production as a soundie made in early March 1942, entitled "A Zoot Suit (with a Reat Pleat)" and starring Dorothy Dandridge and Paul White[…]2003, Eduardo Obregón Pagán, Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon, page 257

Questions about soundies

What is soundies the plural of?
Soundies is the plural of soundie.

Words near soundies in the dictionary

  1. soundheadedness
  2. soundheads
  3. soundhole
  4. soundholes
  5. soundie
  6. soundies
  7. soundin'
  8. soundiness
  9. sounding
  10. sounding balloon
  11. sounding balloons

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