Copycat

Word COPYCAT
Character 7
Hyphenation cop y cat
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Copycat"

What do we mean by copycat?

One that closely imitates or mimics another. noun

To act as an imitator or mimic. intransitive verb

To imitate closely; mimic. intransitive verb

Closely imitating or following another. adjective

Someone who copies the words or behavior of another. noun

One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity. noun

Imitative; unoriginal. adjective

To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way verb

Someone who copies the words or behavior of another noun

One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.

A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has just been or recently committed by someone else.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Copycat

The word "copycat" in example sentences

One is that they didn't want to give people ideas -- here's a new, neat, you know, weapon you can build from the Internet, so we get a bunch of people out there that are, to use the term copycat, who say, you know, I'll do something similar. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of course, the term copycat is too harsh a term for creating a game that already has a rival in the market. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Law enforcement officials said the unrest — including nightly arson and what they described as copycat attacks — was spreading more rapidly than their ability to respond to it. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Even if you can't live up to "Iron Jim", all you had to do was pay attention to the past movies and copycat from the future war scenes and make it into a 2 hour movie. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Contrary to the goal of improving public perceptions, the announcement of a Microsoft-branded chain of stores screams "copycat" - historically one of the worst knocks against it. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Zheng was executed by firing squad a month later -- and on the day of his execution, another school assailant, Chen Kangbing, a mentally ill 33-year-old man, wounded 18 children in a primary school in Leizhou, in Guangdong province, in what authorities called a copycat crime. ❋ Unknown (2010)

VITAL STATSWorries About Littleton CopycatsMore than two weeks after Littleton, so-called copycat threats haven't abated, likely because students are pulling more hoaxes -- but definitely because officials are unwilling to take chances. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At this point, you don't wanna just immediately go in for the finger kiss because someone else just did it, and while being called a copycat isn't as bad as being called a corpse kisser, you're still going to be the main topic of conversation in the various cars other than your own as they're pulling out of the funeral home parking lot. ❋ Unclebob (2006)

The copycat is a person who is watching this broadcast, who is that person who is fascinated by the person who is responsible for this, who identifies with him and at some point, if his life really is going nowhere, and he experiences himself as enough of a failure, he may consider this as an option. ❋ Unknown (2002)

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has been supportive of the idea of copycat sites in the past. ❋ Forbes (2011)

The rioting -- the worst in Britain for decades -- spread to districts across London, and what police called copycat violence broke out in Bristol in the southwest, Birmingham in the Midlands and the northwest port of Liverpool. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nine police were injured in what police called "copycat criminality" in several parts of London on Sunday night, although the damage appeared to be on a much smaller scale than Saturday's rioting in Tottenham, in the north of the capital. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sunday night's clashes, which the police called "copycat violence" seemed less dramatic but more widespread than Saturday's. ❋ By RAVI SOMAIYA (2011)

Apple iPad design labelled a copycat - Chinese Tablet PC maker may sue over iPad A Chinese company that sells a tablet PC like Apple's newly announced iPad may sue the US company over the similar design between the devices, it said Monday. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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