From Wikipedia:
A meme (ryhmes with "Tim") is a popular term for a learned thought, feeling, or behavior, including ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods. Memes propagate themselves and can move through popular culture in a manner similar to a virus. Examples are tunes, catch-phrases, beliefs, clothing-fashions. Meme-theorists contend that memes evolve by natural selection (think Darwin).
From the Urban Dictionary
1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)
2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable
3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture
4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog
5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information
(Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimëma, 'something imitated', by Richard Dawkins in 1976)
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