Indy
339560
222716739
2008-06-30T19:37:57Z
Ken Shook
2391882
'''Indy''' can refer to:
*People, places, and things from, or associated with, the city of [[Indianapolis, Indiana]] or its surrounding metropolitan area.
*[[Indy (gene)]], found in ''[[Drosophila melanogaster]]'', which makes the fly live twice as long. Here, '<SMALL>INDY</SMALL>' stands for "I'm not dead yet!"
*[[Indy (software)]], a music discovery system using collaborative filtering conceived by Ian Clarke.
*[[Indy grab]], a skateboarding trick.
*The [[SGI Indy]] workstation from SGI.
*[[Internet Direct (Indy)|Internet Direct]] for [[Borland Delphi]] and FreePascal.
'''Indy''' is a [[registered trademark]] of Brickyard Trademarks, Inc., the licensing arm of the [[Indianapolis Motor Speedway|Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation]].
'''Indy''' is also commonly used, and frequently misused, as a nickname or abbreviation:
*It is a proper nickname for the city of [[Indianapolis, Indiana]], the surrounding metropolitan area, and people/places/things associated with that geographic region. It often appears in lieu of the word "Indianapolis" in phrases and names, such as "[[Indianapolis 500|Indy 500]]", or "Indy cars" (a short name for the vehicles that race at the circuits of the [[Indy Racing League]]). It should be noted that Indy is ''never'' an appropriate nickname for the state of [[Indiana|Indiana]] or things related to that state in its entirety.
*The nickname for the former [[Champ Car]] & [[V8 Supercar]] Racing festival at Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
*The nickname for the fictional character [[Indiana Jones]].
*The nickname of an incoherent deluded character from [[Clanplay]].
*[[Indy (singer)|Indy]], a [[Serbia]]n [[turbo-folk]] singer.
*It is also an incorrect spelling for an abbreviation of the word "independent"; the correct abbreviation should always be spelled "[[indie]]". As such, the following usages may be colloquial, but are improper:
**As an improper nickname for [[Independence High School (San Jose, California)|Independence High School]], located in [[San Jose, California|San Jose]], [[California]], [[USA]].
**"Indy Media" is an improper nickname for the [[Independent Media Center]].
**"The Indy" is an improper nickname for the British [[newspaper]] ''[[The Independent]]'' and a Providence-based college newspaper ''[[The College Hill Independent]]''.
See also [[Indie]].
{{disambig}}
[[de:Indy]]
[[fr:Indy]]
[[ja:インディ]]