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Knockoff meaning
An imitation of something, particularly a well-known product, usually of lower quality and price than the original. | A device in a knitting machine to remove loops from the needles.
Example sentences (20)
Barber and Emmanuel Candès created the knockoff filter framework, which essentially shows the likelihood of a false positive and is now widely used by researchers in the field.
I think I sound more like a Paolo Nutini knockoff.
Natalya had said that Shayna was a knockoff version of Rousey and Baszler said she was tired of being compared to Rousey.
The character wasn't given enough depth and felt like an Iron Man knockoff without much in the way of individuality.
App stores are notorious for including “knockoff” apps or crapware, and Microsoft has been particularly vulnerable.
Like Wanda reliving different sitcom eras, Agatha (still trapped as Agnes) is stuck in a knockoff where she plays a weary, tough-as-nails detective who’s been suspended but just can’t keep away from the action.
Meanwhile, Fatal Influence’s act has quickly started to feel like a Toxic Attraction knockoff, complete with Jacy Jayne using the same pre-match mannerisms that she used during her days with defunct faction.
Spoiler alert: I'd classify those $11 earbuds as a knockoff.
To most Americans, China is synonymous with cut-rate, cheap, poor-quality knockoff garbage, but that’s largely because that’s the kind of shit Americans buy and demand from Amazon, Temu, and Alibaba.
Europe’s luxury boutiques, a favorite of Chinese tourists seeking to avoid knockoff goods.
One is a neck brace for first-person point-of-view shots; one is a clamp with a flexible stalk; one is a Gorillapod knockoff (the handiest of the bunch); and finally, there's a swiveling ball-head to allow for better angles.
Plans changed after Harvey Weinstein, the indie film producer whose company The Weinstein Company financed the "Home Alone" knockoff, was exposed as a serial sexual harasser and predator.
Skyfall’s Naomie Harris also features in this charmless Godzilla knockoff.
The Georgia artist’s debut album (released earlier this year on ATO Records) was touted as a genre-bending anomaly, and I refrained from listening to it for a long time due to fears that was some kind of Orville Peck knockoff reveling in its own schtick.
After all, it’s kind of like those knockoff designer accessories that caught your eye on that sketchy website once and took so long to arrive that you forgot you ordered them at all.
For nearly a year, my cheap black-on-black lefty Strat knockoff sat untouched in the office.
Had a POS Bissell roomba knockoff for a while.
Hypebeasts were left bewildered when Samsung first announced a collaboration with Supreme knockoff Supreme Italia.
I'm no New Yorker, and the only Louis Vuitton in my closet is a knockoff I bought from a guy at the beach on my last girls trip, but I have a core group of girlfriends, a lifetime of dating horror stories and an ex that won't go away.
Not every Big Mac doppelgänger wears its resemblance quite as brazenly as The Knockoff Burger.