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ape

2 verb
     
ape2 [transitive]
1 to copy the way someone speaks or behaves in order to make fun of them [= mimic]:
He could ape his teachers perfectly.
2 to copy someone's way of doing something, so that what you do or produce is not good or original [= mimic]:
cheap clothes which ape the high fashions of the day
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