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n. One that closely imitates or mimics another.

verb-intransitive. To act as an imitator or mimic.

v. To imitate closely; mimic.

adj. Closely imitating or following another: a copycat version of a successful product; a copycat crime.

n. One who imitates others' work without adding ingenuity.

adj. Imitative; unoriginal.

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

n. someone who copies the words or behavior of another.

n. someone who copies the words or behavior of another

"One is that they didn't want to give people ideas -- here's a new, neat, you know, weapon you can build from the Internet, so we get a bunch of people out there that are, to use the term copycat, who say, you know, I'll do something similar."

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