wannabe

Noun

Meaning

(informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.

(informal, derogatory) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.

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I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them. Bruce Parry

I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid. Jenny Eclair

I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell

There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. Steven Pressfield

After everyone else has paired off, he’s friendless; even his roommate Sam (Logan Miller), a hard-drinking water polo player and stand-up wannabe, considers him lame. Source: Internet

But TRD transforms the already stylish Camry into a racer wannabe both by sight and by performance. Source: Internet

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