Definitions for copycat

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copycat cop·y·cat

Spelling: [kop-ee-kat]

IPA: /ˈkɒp iˌkæt/

Copycat is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in copycat (accopty).

Definitions for copycat

noun

1. a person or thing that copies, imitates, mimics, or follows the lead of another, as a child who says or does exactly the same as another child.

adjective

1. imitating or repeating a recent, well-known occurrence:

verb (used with object)

1. to imitate or mimic:
2. to copy slavishly; reproduce:

Origin of copycat

An Americanism dating back to 1895-1900; copy + cat

Examples for copycat

Then Google turned around and made Android, which Jobs considered a copycat product.

More than 100 people were arrested in Manchester as copycat violence and looting spread across the country.

One thing The O.C. started is all the copycat shows, from The Real Housewives of Orange County to Laguna Beach.

The theory of copycat suicides—fueled by media coverage—has long been studied in academic circles.

Perfectly likable and watchable—it is a House copycat starring Greg Kinnear, after all—but not exactly the most inventive TV.

This launched not only a wave of copycat online beheadings but a new era of AQI online communications.

China has no homegrown Apples or Microsofts, they say, because it is just a copycat nation.