copypasta

noun

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈkɒpiˌpæstə/ / /ˈkɑpiˌpɑstə/ / /ˈkɒpiˌpeɪstə/

noun

Etymology: 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

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.”
“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 sandwich, and the win, and the awesome forever and ever. I guarantee it.”
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.”

verb

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).”