parrot [ párrət ] noun (plural parrots) Definition: 1. brightly coloured tropical bird: a bird with a strong hooked beak and variously coloured, often brilliant plumage, some species of which can mimic speech. Native to: tropics, subtropics. Order Psittaciformes. 2. somebody who copies others: a repeater of something that somebody else has said, without thought or understanding transitive verb (3rd person present singular parrots, present participle parroting, past and past participle parroted) Definition: copy other people: to repeat what somebody else says or writes without having thought about it or understood it [Early 16th century. Probably < French dialect Perrot 'little Pierre'] parroter noun