出典:Wiktionary
From the soap and detergent commercials originally broadcast during the shows, which were aimed at the audience of women who were doing their cleaning; opera from the melodramatic character of the shows, as the earlier horse opera.
soap opera (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 soap operas)
アロマソープ
a soap-boiler
a soap-case
a soap called {Marseilles soap}
ソロホーマー
ケープゾリラ
muishonds
詩劇.
軽喜劇.
演芸.
歌劇.
劇団.
演劇人.
a soap-boiler
軽歌劇.
劇作家.
a soap called {Marseilles soap}
漫画本.
a soap-case
a shadow play [show]
バーレスクショー.
Everyone made soap.