Concept thief

Usage examples of copycat.

Ordinand had caused a huge flutter in the dovecotes of owners of good-as-gold horses, and I in conjunction with our chummy insurance syndicate at Lloyds was busy raising defenses against copycat kidnaps.

Thirty-one-year-old Shand was hailed as one of the new stars of British crime fiction when his first novel, Copycat, shot to the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and won the John Creasey Memorial Dagger and the Mcvitie prize.

All you copycats can fall in line, jump on the wagon, advertise for more clients, then settle them cheap and rake yours off the top.

Buck still had almost seven pounds of Modex Hybrid, plus components left over from copycatting Mr.

As my tea arrived, the thought jumped into my head: if Charlie Parker had been a wirehead, all those copycats would have had to work for a living.

Just take a look at what's being offered at your local cineplex -- sequels, remakes, or copycat versions pretending to be fresh.

There are many imitators and copycats - but only one Project Gutenberg, in scope, perseverance, dedication, and thoroughness.

Soneji had actually copycatted the McDonald's shootings a few years earlier.

After that tidbit came a rehash of the Hungerford massacre and a query, “Is this a copycat killing?

Nora realized that she must not have seen the newspaper article or heard anything about the recent copycat killings of the Surgeon.

Apple, in spite of its reputation as the machine of choice of scruffy, creative hacker types, had actually created a machine that discouraged hacking, while Microsoft, viewed as a technological laggard and copycat, had created a vast, disorderly parts bazaar--a primordial soup that eventually self-assembled into Linux.