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copypasta

noun
/ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/UK/ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/US/ˈkɒpiˌpeɪstə/

Etymology

Blend of copy-paste + pasta. Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Old Latin con- Proto-Indo-European *h₃ep-der. Proto-Italic *opis Old Latin ops Old Latin cōps Proto-Indo-European *-yós Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ia Latin cōpia Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō 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

  1. derived from πάσσω
  2. derived from παστά — “barley porridge”
  3. derived from pasta — “dough, pastry cake, paste”
  4. borrowed from pasta
  5. compounded as copypasta — “copy-paste + pasta”

Definitions

  1. A block of text which has been copied and pasted from somewhere else, serving as a story…

    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.
    • On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.

  2. Code or documentation that has been copied and pasted, often erroneously.

    • Fix copypasta error in previous patch.
    • There are a number of file systems that have copypasta of ufs_ihash; adapting these too to vcache should be a piece of cake.
    • Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.

  3. 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.
    • 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).
    • He probably meant what Bob Minton used to talk about in the post he used to copypasta and repost all the time […]

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Derived

creepypasta, emojipasta

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for copypasta. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA