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Значения термина wanna-be на английском

Person, who wants to be more than he or she is.

        Использование термина wanna-be на английском
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        Every wanna-be and his dog would start messing around with the university's modem account.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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        In the opening scenes, a group of wanna-be-bad boys accost him on a subway and try to grab his hooch.
        Reuters
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        This puts great strain on her homelife with partner Ciaran, a wanna-be novelist, who spends time daily in friend Katie's bookshop.
        The Irish Times
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        Bowen fielded occasional phone calls on his voice line from wanna-be hackers trying to pry open the door to the Inner Sanctum.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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        Wanna-be hackers had trouble getting into it because of the way X.25 networks were billed.
        Underground: Hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic fr...
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        "But the campaign is the reason for Madlyn's disappearance," said the I-wanna-be-the-mayor.
        For whom the minivan rolls: an aaron tucker mystery
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        Two fans from the standard selection remained in the mall bookstore: a balding Thirty-Something Exec and an overweight Commando-Wanna-be.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams
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        "Not everyone dresses like that, just the nusses and the wanna-be nusses."
        Escape
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        "Uh, thanks." The Commando-Wanna-be looked at the books piled on the cloth-covered card table in front of Confry.
        The Sandman Book of Dreams