Meaning of Clone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A living organism (originally a plant) produced asexually from a single ancestor, to which it is genetically identical.
2. A group of identical cells derived from a single cell.
3. A copy or imitation of something already existing, especially when designed to simulate it.
4. A person who is exactly like or very similar to another person, in terms of looks or behavior.
   informal
5. A Castro clone.
   slang

Equivalents

Examples

“This new species is a clone of the mimosa plant⟳.”

“The computer manufacturer produced IBM PC clones in the 1990s.”

“Once, on a confident whim, I approached the group of popular girls in an attempt⟳ to broaden my circle. Their ringleader took one glance⟳ at my new Aeropostale T-shirt and whispered to her clones, “Yeah, Aero's definitely out now.””

“Some of me is clone, but a good part of me is still disco.”

“By mid-1983, I had grown weary of reading literature by white gay men who fell, quite easily, into three camps: the incestuous literati of Manhattan and Fire Island, the San Francisco cropped-mustache-clones, and the Boston-to-Cambridge politically correct⟳ radical faggots.”

“these are cultural categories. they change⟳ over time. new ones appear⟳ (the Leatherman is recent, the Bear⟳ very recent), old ones vanish (though individual aunties and clones are still to be found - arch-clone jimmy pike is still making videos and keeping his stomach muscles in great shape⟳ - the Auntie and the Clone as generally recognized categories are no longer with us).”

“Since the Second World War and the rise⟳ of the middle-class “clone gay” in the US and a similar move⟳ away from homosexual effeminacy in Britain—often rooted in working class culture—gender nonconforming or effeminate gay males have⟳ been edged out of mainstream understandings of what it means to be gay.”

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