soundalike

soundalike
/sownd"euh luyk'/, n.
a person or thing that sounds like another, esp. a better known or more famous prototype: a whole spate of Elvis Presley soundalikes.
[1965-70; n. use of v. phrase sound alike, on the model of LOOKALIKE]

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