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copycat

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Noun

  1. One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.
  2. 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

  1. Imitative; unoriginal.

Verb

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

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