Sekirov Dictionary

copycat

/kɑpiˈkæt/

noun 2
adjective 1
verb 1
forms 5

noun2

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.
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(informal, disapproving) One who imitates or plagiarizes the work of others.
- 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. — 1899

adjective1

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Imitative; unoriginal.
- “Because of my size, I was a natural leader in junior high school. Gangs are the most copycat of subcultures. It used to be zoot suits; now it's tattoos. When I was thirteen, I got a tattoo.” — 1998

verb1

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To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.
- Because beasts don't talk with words, they talk with sounds, and I copycatted my language from beasts and birds[…] — 1910

forms

copycatted · copycatting · copycats · more copycat · most copycat

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