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As used in modern urban conversation, the term refers to a white person who tries to emulate black people in order to appear hip or ghetto.

See also: wigger
Any 15-year old teenage white male who wears his pants down around his knees, wears a sports jersey and gold jewelry, and insists on blaring rap music at all hours of the day and night is a wannabe.

Also, any white person attempting to say something like fo' shizzle my nizzle.
wannabe by John Blair April 9, 2006
They are dork people who pretend to be someone definitely they WILL NEVER BE. dream on! they are the one who think they are oh so gorgeous but damn theyre NOT! they usually hate TRUE people. and they ENVY those who are HAPPY ABOUT THEIR SELVES.
LIBY ia a poor girl wannabe who hates true well-off happy people.
wannabe by antiliby March 22, 2008
Somebody who see someone slightly better than them, then rips them off for the next several weeks untill they see someone else.
Highly irratating especially if ur listening to the band ect
Like most annoyin emo-wannabes at my college! who "cut" their wrists with sporks! yes sporks!

They also say repeatedly " i love fall out boy aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" (also annoying)
wannabe by Carver ash May 30, 2006
a person who wants to be another famous or rich or normal person
wannabe: ESKETIT!!!!

person: dude stop ur a lil pump wannabe
wannabe by ESKETEKMYBROODA July 22, 2018
1. A song by The Spice Girls
2. A loser that acts like his/her idol just to get attention
{Heather}: Hey look Emma, there's Tanya acting like she's one of us again
{Emma}: What a wannabe

{Heather}: Ikr
{Tanya}: Wassup girls! Has Thomas asked you out yet Heather?
{Heather}: No, and stop acting like that you wannabe!
{Tanya}: Meanies!
Wannabe by Elizabeth Wright October 8, 2018
Wannabe

Coined in the 1960s by Native Americans to describe hippies who wanted to be Indians. The Indians described them as being members of the Wannabe Tribe. Now used to describe people who wannabe another person or any of a variety of different types of people.
"That hippie thinks he's an Indian, he's a member of the Wannabe tribe."

"She's a Madonna wannabe."
Wannabe by Jelly Roll Baker February 11, 2019