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also wannabee
Synonyms of wannabe
a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way
- an entrepreneur who seems to have made his fortune mainly by giving how-to-get-rich lectures to entrepreneurial wannabes
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The first known use of wannabe was in 1976
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