Usually means: Aspiring to be someone else.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. wannabe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wannabe: Merriam-Webster
  3. wannabe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wannabe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wannabe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wannabe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wannabe, wannabe: Wordnik
  8. wannabe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wannabe: Wiktionary
  10. wannabe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. wannabe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wannabe: Dictionary.com
  13. wannabe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. wannabe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Wannabe, Wannabe (Itzy song), Wannabe (Spice Girls song), Wannabe (film), Wannabe (song), Wannabe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. wannabe: Rhymezone
  17. wannabe: FreeDictionary.org
  18. wannabe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. wannabe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. wannabe: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. wannabe: Encyclopedia

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  2. wannabe: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. wannabe, wannabe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. wannabe: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

(Note: See wannabes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (informal, derogatory, often attributive) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
noun:  (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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