Copycat's activity

• Mock-portraying
• Doing a takeoff on
• Parroting
• Doing like
• Mimic's ability
• Mimetic behavior
• Mimicry
• Little's forte

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"imitation, mimicry," 1680s, verbal noun from ape (v.).

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ape \Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aped ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aping .] To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. ``How he apes his sire.'' --Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they ...