noun
noun: meme; plural noun: memes
1.
an element of a culture or system of behaviour passed from one individual to another by imitation or other non-genetic means.
2.
an image, video, piece of text, etc., typically humorous in nature, that is copied and
spread rapidly by Internet users, often with slight variations.
Origin
1970s: from
Greek mimēma ‘that which is imitated’, on the pattern of
gene