noun, adjective
noun (informal, disapproving) used especially by children about and to a person who copies what sb else does because they have no ideas of their own
adjective [onlybeforenoun] (of crimes) similar to and seen as copying an earlier well-known crime:
copycat crimes * The copycat phenomenon is a danger to which the media may be contributing.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for copycat is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does copycat appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — copycat appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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