copycat

9 definitions • 14 examples

someone who is influenced by someone else and does or says exactly the same as them:

You're just a copycat!

Whether it is the original attacker or a copycat, he must be caught soon.

something that is intentionally done or made to be very similar to something else:

Many of the drugs licensed in the last decade have been copycats of already existing medicines.

The website has become so influential that last month the government launched its own copycat.

Copycat behaviour, often bad or criminal behaviour, is influenced by other, similar behaviour:

I don't believe that these cartoons lead to copycat violence.

copycat murders

The lawsuit may encourage copycat claims by other investors.

intentionally done or made to be very similar to something else:

At the market you can buy copycat designer handbags and perfumes.

This was the first time that health watchdogs had approved a copycat version of a biotech drug.

to intentionally do the same thing as someone else has done, or make something very similar to something else:

The restaurants that are succeeding today are those that are not copycatting somebody else.

I think it's very sad when kids feel the need to copycat.

done to copy someone or something

A copycat crime is one that appears to be a copy of another crime because it is so similar.

made or done in exactly the same way as something else:

cheap copycat products

Sales of the product have fallen by 42% since copycat versions were launched.

a product that is a copy of another company's product:

The jeans company says it will fight to have all copycats removed from stores and destroyed.