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copypasta

UK/ˈkɒpiˌpæstə//ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/

copypasta noun: a block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.

Noun

copypasta (countable and uncountable, plural copypastas)

  1. (Internet) A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.
    • Gikope is a really useful program for keeping up with AA and copypasta. I've rapidshared my own achieve, which includes 1000s of AAs and a large collection of copypasta.2006 February 2, anonymous author, “GIKOPE COPYPASTA AND AA ARCHIEVE:”, in 4chan, retrieved 10 Sep 2013
    • Our Father, who art in 4chan, Anonymous be thy name. Thy sage come, thy will be done on Gaia as it is in 4chan. Give us this day our copypasta, And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro. For thine is the...2006 June 7, Anonymous Addict, “4chan is broken again”, in Channel 4 BBS, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2007
  2. (slang) Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.
    • Fix copypasta error in previous patch.2011 February 1, Polytheus, “r288 committed - ChangeLog for system 6.2-rc1, boot 3.0”, in openetna (Usenet)
    • There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.2014 April 7, Taylor R. Campbell, “Vnode API change: add global vnode cache”, in fa.netbsd.tech.kern (Usenet)

Verb

copypasta (third-person singular simple present copypastas, present participle copypastaing, simple past and past participle copypastaed)

  1. (Internet, uncommon) To copy and paste data from one website to another, usually text.
    • You didn't read the paper. You dully copypastaed the abstract. The abstract is not the paper.2008 March 3, Rudy Canoza, “Re: Meat is a prominent part of chimpanzee diet; pre-human hominids ate meat for 2.25 million years (biologically adapted to meat)”, in alt.food.vegan (Usenet)
    • Copypasta-ing from my last New Years Challenge, because I'm not feeling creative enough to come up with new teams (and really, I don't think I can top myself with the ones I did get together).2008 November 4, dot_wa...@hotmail.com, “Re: [FLUFF] Omake challenge time...”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet)

Examples of copypasta in a sentence

  • Give us this day our copypasta, And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro.2006 June 7, Anonymous Addict, “4chan is broken again”, in Channel 4 BBS, archived from the original on 18 Jul 2007:
  • On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.2008 January 6, Cory Albrecht, “Re: A treatise on how one willfully becomes an atheist”, in talk.origins (Usenet):
  • Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums.2009 March 4, "Quaoar", “Re: ARS is dead. Long live the trolls!”, in alt.religion.scientology (Usenet):
  • It's essentially a (sort of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St.2009 April 27, R. Hill, “St. Petersburg Times' _Man behind the religion_ 'copypasta' serves David Miscavige's agenda”, in...

Forms of copypasta

Noun
pluralcopypastas
Verb
third-person singular presentcopypastas
present participlecopypastaing
past participlecopypastaed
pastcopypastaed

Origin of copypasta

Blend of copy-paste + pasta. Etymology tree Latin cōpiō Old French copierbor. Middle English copien English copy Ancient Greek πάσσω (pássō) Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Hellenic *-tós Ancient Greek -τός (-tós) Ancient Greek παστός (pastós) Ancient Greek παστά (pastá)bor. Late Latin pasta Old French pastebor. Middle English paste English paste English copy-paste ▲ Late Latin pasta Italian pastabor. English pasta blend English copypasta

Words formed from copypasta

Questions about copypasta

What does copypasta mean?
Copypasta means a block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story or meme.
How do you use copypasta in a sentence?
Give us this day our copypasta, And forgive us our COMBO BREAKERs, as we forgive those who COMBO BREAK against us And lead us not into CP, but deliver us from Piro.
What part of speech is copypasta?
Copypasta can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce copypasta?
Copypasta is pronounced /ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/ (UK).
What is the plural of copypasta?
The plural of copypasta is copypastas.

Words near copypasta in the dictionary

  1. copylore
  2. copynumber
  3. copynumbers
  4. copyparties
  5. copyparty
  6. copypasta
  7. copypastaed
  8. copypastaing
  9. copypastas
  10. copypaste
  11. copypasted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copypasta (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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