ape
noun
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any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
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person who resembles a nonhuman primateanthropoid
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someone who copies the words or behavior of anothercopycatimitatoremulatoraper
verb
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to represent in or produce a caricature of“Everyone cracks up when I ape the way that you lecture us.”caricature
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to imitate uncritically and in every aspect“My younger siblings ape my behavior.”