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   meme

   /miːm/

   noun

   • 1. an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread rapidly by internet users, often with slight variations: "celebrity gossip and memes often originate on the site"
   • 2. an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.

   verb

   • 1. create an internet meme from (an image, video, piece of text, etc.): "there's always one audience reaction shot at the Oscars that gets memed"

   Word Origin 1970s (in meme (sense 2 of the noun)): coined by the British evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, from Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of gene.

   Scrabble Points: 8

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