meme
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
meme (plural memes)
- Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmit verbally or by repeat action from one mind to another in a comparable way to the transmission of gene.
- Synonyms: culturgen
- 1976, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene:
- Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches.
- 2002, Rita Carter, Exploring Consciousness, p. 242:
- Related memes tend to form mutually supporting meme-complexes such as religions, political ideologies, scientific theories, and New Age dogmas.
- (Internet, slang) Something, usually humorous, which is copied and circulated online with slight adaptations, including quiz, basic picture, video templates etc. [from 1993]
- 2005, "darklily", OT: Livejournal (discussion on Internet newsgroup soc.sexuality.general)
- I do...but my journal is a mess. It's mostly filled with memes and my bitching about a house I am building.
- 2012, Greg Jarboe, You Tube and Video Marketing, 2nd edition:
- The idea was to append Keyboard Cat to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after a mistake or gaffe, like getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. The meme became popular, Ashton Kutcher tweeted about it to more than 1 million followers, and more than 4,000 such videos have now been made.
- 2013, The Guardian, (headline), 8 Feb 2013:
- Harlem Shake meme: the new Gangnam Style?
- 2005, "darklily", OT: Livejournal (discussion on Internet newsgroup soc.sexuality.general)
- (Internet slang) A myth circulating as truth; something ineffective presented as effective, or similar.
- it’s a meme degree
- jogging is a meme
meme (memes, present participle meming; past and past participle memed)
- (transitive, rare, internet slang) To turn into a meme; to use a meme, especially to achieve something in real life.
- to meme into existence
- (intransitive, internet slang) To create and use humorous memes.
- (intransitive, internet slang) To joke around.
- I thought you guys were just meming.
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