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meme
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noun
1. a. a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes.
b. a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., that is spread via the internet and often altered in a creative or
humorous way.

verb (used without object), memed, meme·ing or mem·ing.

2. to create and spread memes:
He spends a lot of time memeing and sharing his videos with friends.

verb (used with object), memed, meme·ing or mem·ing.

3. to make the subject of a meme:
cute cats that get memed.

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ORIGIN OF MEME1

First recorded in 1976; coined by British evolutionary biologist C. Richard Dawkins (born 1941), shortening of Dawkins's original creation mimeme, which was
based on Greek mī́mēma “imitation, copy; artistic representation,” but which Dawkins also wanted to look and sound like gene;cf. mimesis

WORDS NEARBY MEME

membrane bone, membrane transport, membranophone, membranous, membranous labyrinth, meme, me-media, memeify, Memel, memento,
memento mori

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WORDS RELATED TO MEME

buzzword, trend, concept, craze, fad, fashion, idea, kick, meteor, vogue

HOW TO USE MEME IN A SENTENCE

A few years ago, “zoom and enhance” was an internet meme making fun of CSI-style shows using a technology that didn’t really exist.
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She then synched the song to the video with Kapwing’s tools, creating a new version of the meme.
MEMERS ARE MAKING DEEPFAKES, AND THINGS ARE GETTING WEIRD | KAREN HAO | AUGUST 28, 2020 | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

The company, which got its start as a meme maker, offers a free suite of browser-based video-editing software tools.
MEMERS ARE MAKING DEEPFAKES, AND THINGS ARE GETTING WEIRD | KAREN HAO | AUGUST 28, 2020 | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW

While branded memes haven’t reached become the butt of a joke like the Bloomberg campaign memes, making memes that don’t land the joke or don’t stick out can
also be an issue.
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Without these gatherings, some of his churchgoers had turned instead to Facebook, podcasts, and viral memes for guidance.
EVANGELICALS ARE LOOKING FOR ANSWERS ONLINE. THEY’RE FINDING QANON INSTEAD. | ABBY OHLHEISER | AUGUST 26, 2020 | MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
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BRITISH DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS FOR MEME

meme
/ (miːm) /

noun
1. an idea or element of social behaviour passed on through generations in a culture, esp by imitation
 ORIGIN OF MEME1

C20: possibly from mimic, on the model of gene

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