wannabee
- a variation of wannabe.
Example Sentences
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Each Chalamet wannabee will come to the front and introduce themselves.
From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2024
Contrasting the Brit version and the Yank wannabee is a total blast!
From Slate ● Dec. 7, 2015
No wonder just about everyone in tech, sooner or later, either burns out or become a Steve Jobs wannabee.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
As is so often the way with twitter foodie cliques, this was widely picked up on by the gang of cheffy wannabee sycophants, and then all the big guns joined in.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
Indeed, the entirety of hacker culture is often perceived as ha-ha-only-serious by hackers themselves; to take it either too lightly or too seriously marks a person as an outsider, a wannabee, or in larval stage.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
