indy

noun4

1. •
   A car designed to meet the rules on the Indianapolis 500 car race.
2. •
   An open-wheel open-cockpit single-seat racecar
3. •
   A motorcar race that uses this type of car
4. •
   An independent entity.

   • To survive, an indy needed hits big enough that distributors would pay up overdue accounts to get them — 2004

adjective1

1. •
   Independent, unaffiliated (especially not affiliated with a major organization or company).

phrase1

1. •
   Acronym of I'm not dead yet (“a fruit-fly gene, mutant versions of which are said to have increased the organism's lifespan”).