1. A reference to people who have set ideas about what someone or something is like: The author's plots are predictable and her characters are stereotyped individuals.
2. Etymology: from Greek stereos, "solid, three-dimensional."

Since "stereotypers" were used to print the same thing over and over, the word came to mean any excessively repeated statements or ideas.

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