Copycat

Quick meaning: Copycat is a noun meaning (informal, derogatory) One who imitates or plagiarizes the work of others.

Meaning

(informal, derogatory) One who imitates or plagiarizes the work of others.

More Meanings

1. Imitative; unoriginal.
2. (transitive) To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.
3. A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has recently been committed by someone else.

Example Sentences

copycat crime

a copycat strangler

As one executive put it: Now in the beverage market we are to a great extent very copycat.

And in it all they are merely copy-cats—servile followers of the aristocratic creed, but without the genuine prestige of the old-time nobilities.

Word Forms

• copycats
• copy cat
• copy-cat
• copycatting
• copycatted

Synonyms for copycat

Depending on context, synonyms include aper, imitator, ape.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include imitator, aper, ape, mimic, echoer, mime.

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