copycatnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒp.i.kæt/us/ˈkɑː.pi.kæt/child's wordsomeone who has few ideas of their own and does or says exactly the same as someone else:
You're just a copycat!
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Copying and copies
- ape
- blueprint
- carbon copy
- carbon paper
- co-opt
- imitation
- imitative
- imitator
- impersonate
- impersonator
- leaf
- lift
- plagiarize
- recreate
- reinvent
- replica
- replicate
- reproduce
- reproduction
- simulation
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copycatadjective
uk/ˈkɒp.i.kæt/us/ˈkɑː.pi.kæt/done or made to be very similar to something else:
At the market you can buy affordable copycat (= very similar) versions of expensive perfumes.
A copycat crime is believed to have been influenced by another, often famous, crime because it is so similar:
copycat murders
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Similar and the same
- a level playing field idiom
- affinity
- akin
- alike
- allied
- approach
- clock
- difference
- equal
- firm
- homogeneous
- homogenous
- identical
- identikit
- inch
- Rome
- same
- same difference idiom
- same old same old idiom
- sameness
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