fusilar
/fusiˈlaɾ/ · B2 · verb
to plagiarize
🔫📝 fusil = rifle in Spanish, so fusilar = shoot with a rifle, or gun down someone's text
Fusilar comes from fusil, meaning rifle. Soldiers shoot a prisoner in a firing squad. The same verb is used when someone copies another person's writing word for word, as if the original author's work had been shot down and taken.