wannabe Definition
☆ wanna·be (wä′nə bē′, wô′-)
noun
Slang a person who wants to be or be like someone else or to attain some status or condition a rock-star wannabe
wannabe Usage Examples
Converse of object
tell: Apparently she couldn't face telling wannabes how rubbish they were!
Adjective modifier
- young: During a screen test she destroyed young wannabe 's with her harsh criticism.
- other: First there was Pokemon, then Yu-Gi-Oh and then a thousand other wannabes vying for the pocket money of the world's children.
- political: Is it just a platform for political wannabes to show off?
- talentless: Why is he being left in the shadows when all around him bland, talentless wannabes are ending up on Top Of The Pops?
- teenage: Camp is the delightful tale of a summer camp ( " Ovation " ) for teenage wannabe musical stars.
- desperate: Tune into Entertainment Daily for your fix of gossip, from the biggest A-list stars to desperate wannabes.
Modifies a noun
- gangster: The crowd may have had to endure downpours, wannabe gangsters, pantomime rockers and The Rasmus, but Reading still rocked.
- actress: Lauren is like most wannabe actresses - she wants to be famous, and to be famous you have to suffer the audition process.
- filmmaker: It is a career with qualities that any wannabe filmmaker would surely hope to emulate.
- entrepreneur: Feeling scared about what could go wrong is preventing an increasing number of wannabe entrepreneurs from setting up in business, new research claims.
- pop: Rohan Music Studios From rock bands to radio jingles, mastering to wannabe pop stars or the next pop idol.
- star: All manner of live music events, plus seminars for wannabe rock stars.
Noun used with modifier
- gambling: Gambling wannabes and you can't know new york ny.
- star: Sol, the youngest rock star wannabe daughter takes the news the easiest.
- medium: Their style is emulated, without the intelligence or humor, by scores of media wannabes who confuse aggression with persistence.
- rock: Sol, the youngest rock star wannabe daughter takes the news the easiest.
- pop: I Am The Next Idol Register free to upload your images and sounds to this site aimed at unsigned pop idol wannabe 's!
- gangster: They were little gangster wannabes who talked tough and hadn't a clue about the art of death.
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