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wannabe
noun
someone who wants to be and pretends to be that which he is not US, 1980
Deemed potentially offensive by Multicultural Management Program Fellows, Dictionary of Cautionary Words and Phrases, 1989.- As for motive, Droz thinks the trio might be categorized as “wannabes” – people who always wanted to be officials. — Los Angeles Times, p. C9, 5 January 1978
- — runnin’ down some lines, p. 259, 1980
- They call the white gangs “wannabes,” meaning someone who dresses and talks the part because he “wants to be” a gang member, but is actually tame. — Los Angeles Times, p. 4 (Metro Section), 28 July 1985
- — American Speech, Fall 1990
- [I]f you are a hardcore – or just a wannabe – gang member and you are sitting in the back of an L.A. County Probation Department van, the odds are that you are seeing this panorama for the first time. — Leon Bing, Do or Die, pp. 3–4, 1991
- Strike saw Spook and Ahmed walk away as if they had something to hide–wannabes, the only idiots who walked. — Richard Price, Clockers, p. 9, 1992
- It [Mod] was the original wannabe culture. Wannabe boys, wanna create, wannabe rich, wannabe famous, wannabe loved, wannabe known. — Mark Pass, Marc Bolan, The Sharper Word, p. 47, 1992
- Here [Johnny] Depp and fellow wannabes Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix acted out their rock’n’roll fantasies. — Barney Hoskins, Waiting for the Sun, p. 339, 1996
- They’re the wannabes of football hooliganism. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 174, 1999
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