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abkupfern — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • copycat noun A person who imitates someone else, often in an unoriginal or shameless way.
  • plagiarize verb To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.

Senses

abkupfern is used for these senses in English:

  • copycat To act as a copycat; to copy in a shameless or derivative way. [from early 20th c.]
  • plagiarize (ambitransitive) To use, and pass off as one's own, someone else's writing, speech, ideas, or other intellectual or creative work, especially in an academic context; to commit plagiarism.
  • rip off (transitive, slang) To copy, especially illegally.

copycat — full definition

  1. noun A person who imitates someone else, often in an unoriginal or shameless way.
  2. noun A criminal who copies a method used in a recent, often high-profile, crime.
  3. adj Imitative; done in direct imitation of something else.

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