## Function: COMMON-LISP:COPY-SYMBOL [![package](https://img.shields.io/badge/Package-COMMON--LISP-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../) [![type](https://img.shields.io/badge/Type-Function-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](../#function) [![clhs](https://img.shields.io/badge/CLHS-COPY--SYMBOL-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999)](http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/f_cp_sym.htm) [![github](https://img.shields.io/badge/GitHub-View_the_source-5f9ea0.svg?style=social&colorA=999999&logo=github)](https://github.com/sbcl/sbcl/blob/master/src/code/symbol.lisp/) > Make and return a new uninterned symbol with the same print name > as SYMBOL. If COPY-PROPS is false, the new symbol is neither bound > nor fbound and has no properties, else it has a copy of SYMBOL's > function, value and property list. ### Lambda list ```cl (symbol &optional sb-impl::copy-props) ```