copypasta

noun

1. (Internet, countable, uncountable)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.”

   “On the other paw, his further responses are generally rehashings (though not copypastas) of his original screed.”

   “Almost everything posted on ARS [alt.religion.scientology] is copypasta from the original posted sources, i.e., web forums.”

   “It's essentially a (sort of) copypasta of *only the first page* of an article published in the St. Petersburg Times […]”

2. (countable, slang, uncountable)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.”

   “Perl's pod docs are a disorganized mess on the relation of hashes, packages, objects, references and globs. The tutorials never make it clear, and instead encourage copypasta.”

   “This [bug documentation] is copypasta from the initramfs-tools bug.”

   “Something like 30% of large codebases on "big name" software projects by Google, Adobe, etc. have "copypasta errors" in code of the form like this, a shit-headed way to compare two arrays for reverse equality: if (array_1[9] == array_2[0] && array_1[8] == array_2[1] && […]”

verb

1. (Internet, uncommon)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).”

   “He probably meant what Bob Minton used to talk about in the post he used to copypasta and repost all the time […]”