Look up Wannabe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A wannabe (sometimes spelled wannabee) is a person who likes to imitate, or even wishes to be, another, but cannot achieve it due to physical, psychological, financial, cultural, political, religious, or mental limitations. The term, a contraction of "want to be," entered the popular consciousness in the mid-1980s. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
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Etymology
The term was first used in a July 6, 1981 Newsweek article on surfing that described novice surfers crowding the beaches as wannabees (as in, ‘I wanna be a surfer’).[1] The term was popularized by writer John Skow in a spring 1985 Time magazine on the pop star Madonna.[2] Skow used the construction "Wanna Be's" to describe the avid fans who sought to dress, talk and act like their idol. Other early uses of the term referred to "wannabe" gang members and "wannabe" bikers.[3] 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie (born August 16, 1958), better known as simply Madonna, is a six-time Grammy[1] and one-time Golden Globe award winning American pop singer, songwriter, record and film producer, dancer, actress, author and fashion icon. ...
In subsequent years, the contracted form of Skow's phrase — "wannabe" — came into wide use and took on something of a pejorative connotation. The term is associated often with ambitious and excessive zeal.
The term 'wannabe' is sometimes used derogatively to describe young fans of rap and alternative music, mainly by current or experienced fans of similar music. Hip hop music is a style of popular music. ...
Alternative hip hop (Bohemian hip hop) is a style of hip hop distinguished by socio-political lyrics, sparse beats that sample few and/or unusual sources (see jazz rap) and uniquely positive rhymes. ...
Native Americans often describe non-Natives who pretend to be Indians, or outsiders who claim to follow Native religions, "Members of the Wannabe Tribe"[4]. Native Americans are the indigenous peoples from the regions of North America now encompassed by the continental United States, including parts of Alaska. ...
People suffering from apotemnophilia, the desire to amputate a limb are also called wannabes[citation needed]. Apotemnophilia (from Greek αποτÎμνειν to cut off) or BIID is the overwhelming desire to amputate one or more healthy limbs. ...
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Wigger (often spelled wigga or whigger or whigga) is a slang term that refers to a white person who emulates mannerisms, slangs and fashions stereotypically associated with urban African American; especially in relation to hip hop culture. ...
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A snob, guilty of snobbery, is a person that adopts the world-view that other people are inherently inferior for any one of a variety of reasons including supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc. ...
The words peon and peonage are derived from the Spanish peón (). In its obsolete usage in Spain itself, the word denoted a person who travelled by foot rather than on a horse (caballero). ...
References - ^ Oxford English Dictionary
- ^ Time magazine cover story
- ^ Los Angeles Times, 28 July 1985; Outlaw Biker, 16 June, 1987
- ^ Schmidt, Robert. PEACE PARTY -- Stereotype Hall of Shame (English). Blue Corn Comics. Retrieved on 2007-01-30.
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