Person, who wants to be more than he or she is.
1 Every wanna - be and his dog would start messing around with the university's modem account.
2 In the opening scenes, a group of wanna-be-bad boys accost him on a subway and try to grab his hooch.
3 This puts great strain on her homelife with partner Ciaran, a wanna - be novelist, who spends time daily in friend Katie's bookshop.
4 Bowen fielded occasional phone calls on his voice line from wanna - be hackers trying to pry open the door to the Inner Sanctum.
5 Wanna - be hackers had trouble getting into it because of the way X.25 networks were billed.
6 "But the campaign is the reason for Madlyn's disappearance," said the I-wanna-be-the-mayor.
7 Two fans from the standard selection remained in the mall bookstore: a balding Thirty-Something Exec and an overweight Commando-Wanna-be.
8 "Not everyone dresses like that, just the nusses and the wanna - be nusses."
9 "Uh, thanks." The Commando-Wanna-be looked at the books piled on the cloth-covered card table in front of Confry.
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