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Someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another
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impersonator
Word definitions for impersonator in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 One who fraudulently impersonates another person. 2 entertainer whose act is based upon performing impressions of others.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Impersonator \Im*per"son*a`tor\, n. One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who assumes the person or character of another," 1853, from impersonate with Latinate agent noun suffix.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another [syn: imitator ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another. There are many reasons for someone to be an impersonator, some common ones being as follows: Entertainment : An entertainer impersonates a celebrity, generally for entertainment, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But the Parading Elvises, a group of at least 20 Elvis impersonators, will. ▪ He also moonlights as a Hulk Hogan impersonator . ▪ Let this Cleo impersonator , this writer of letters, do what they liked. ▪ Read in studio A man ...
Usage examples of impersonator.
Like all Elvis impersonators worth their Quaaludes and fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches, he chose to give homage to the jelly-bellied, sideburned, rhinestone-jumpsuited Elvis, the one who sadly lost the vote for the commemorative stamp.
One turn follows another--jugglers, acrobats, rubber-jointed wonders, fire-dancers, coon-song artists, singers, players, female impersonators, sentimental soloists, and so forth and so forth.
Well, he'd had one gay client two years ago& a female impersonator at a gay nightclub in Lafayette, The Blue Lily.
Like rabbits released in virgin territory, Elvis replicas and Elvis impersonators have wreaked havoc on our cultural ecology, overrunning and overturning the entire postmodern landscape.
Up on stage a lounge band was backing a female impersonator belting out torch songs.
Now to me, who is only being female impersonator, it is not making difference how I get to be a clown so long as I am really wanting to be clown.
Every burlesque and vaudeville program had a female impersonator, usually the master of ceremonies.
I feel like a goddamned female impersonator and I like to watch them.
If it were dramatized, I would be able to do my best characters on stage, and I don't make a very good female impersonator.
When did the State Department start hiring wombat impersonators and guide dogs?
We recycle nearly everything else, but there aren't any Dino impersonators around.
The man's muscles play directly under the skin, and the curves of female impersonators are due to flabby muscles, and not the feminine fat layer.
When we last left our story, Ming Hong Toy, playful research scientist and part-time song stylist, was about to marry Clark Wang Yu, gardener and part-time Godzilla impersonator, when her drunken father, Hing Wong, interrupted her joy with the news that her half-brother, Hong Kong, had been hit by a laundry truck while he was on a mercy mission, trying to smuggle soap back to the women of North Korea .
The famed impersonator Julian Eltinge was a Portland favorite when he toured from New York, and a dozen pictures of him dressed as a woman still hung in Portlands Heilig Theater when it was torn down.
What if he killed Duke, stole some of his clothes and ended up at the Nite Owl by chance--because Duke frequented the place, or more likely--_as part of some kind of criminal rendezvous that went bad, the killers leaving, coming back with shotguns, blasting the Cathcart impersonator and five innocent bystanders to make it look like a robbery?