Definition of "indie" []

• Informal One, such as a studio or producer, that is unaffiliated with a larger or more commercial organization. (noun)
• Informal An artistic work produced by an independent company or group: "[His film] showed that indies could . . . take in millions at the box office” ( Liesl Schillinger). (noun)
• Of, relating to, or being an indie: an album of indie rock; an indie film company. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "There's folky indie, there's metaly indie, dancey indie, there's indie-schmindie, jingly-jangly bumhead indie, punky-indie, singer-songwritery indie* ... and even those descriptions are inherantly lacking in proper decriptive terms."
• "Today, the reasons for DIY publishing I resist the term "indie," for independent publishers are not the same as self-publishers are myriad."
• "Though as Richard Nash suggests, we're all indie now (except the big guys), so even the term indie doesn't mean much:"