copycat

Meanings

Noun

• One who imitates or plagiarizes others' work.
• A criminal who imitates the crimes of another; specifically, a criminal who commits the same crime, especially a highly-publicized one, that has just been or recently committed by someone else.

Adjective

• Imitative; unoriginal.

Verb

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

Origin

• From copy + cat.