Usually means: Imitator mimicking others without originality.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. copycat: Merriam-Webster
  2. copycat: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. copycat: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. copycat: Collins English Dictionary
  5. copycat: Vocabulary.com
  6. Copycat, copycat: Wordnik
  7. copycat: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. copycat: Wiktionary
  9. copycat: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. copycat: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. copycat: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. copycat: Dictionary.com
  13. copycat: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Copycat (Billie Eilish song), Copycat (Marvel Comics), Copycat (The Cranberries song), Copycat (comics), Copycat (film), Copycat (software), Copycat: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. copycat: Rhymezone
  16. copycat: FreeDictionary.org
  17. copycat: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. copycat: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. copycat: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Copycat: CCI Computer
  2. copycat: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (informal, derogatory) One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.
noun:  A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has just or recently been committed by someone else.
adjective:  Imitative; unoriginal.
verb:  To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way.

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