meme

PRONUNCIATION:
(meem)

MEANING:
noun:
1. An element of culture, idea, behavior, etc., that’s transmitted from person to person.
2. An image, video clip, etc. often with amusing caption, that’s transmitted virally on the Internet.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek mimeisthai (to imitate, copy); coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene in 1976.
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MOME - the kind of rath often found grabing out

MEMSE - a Parisian describing a borogove

MEMES- The sound of children waving their hands and begging to be called upon