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