copycat

copycat

copycat (third-person singular simple present copycats, present participle copycatting, simple past and past participle copycatted)

1. To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way
   • 2007 September 3, Janet Maslin, “His Girl Friday Meets a Sadistically Chic Serial Killer”, New York Times:

     In a genre that is rife with copycatting, Ms. Cain deserves some credit for having gotten a potentially interesting new series off the ground.

copycat (plural copycats)

1. (informal) One who imitates others work without adding ingenuity.

copycat (comparative more copycat, superlative most copycat)

1. Imitative; unoriginal.
   • 1997, “The Atlantic monthly”:?

     ""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 its tattoos. When I was thirteen, I got a tattoo""

   • 1997, Daniel Miller, Capitalism: an ethnographic approach:

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

   • 2009, Alan Cole, Fathering your father: the Zen of fabrication in Tang Buddhism:

     It was that very copycat kind of ""grandfather stealing"" that makes Jinjues text look like the son of Du Feis Record, even as it works to push Du Feis ""father-text"" out of the way.

Altri significati:

one who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity

(informal) One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.

One who imitates others' work or behaviour without adding ingenuity.

Imitative; unoriginal.

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

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