wanna-be

Noun

wannabe (plural wannabes)

1. (attributive, derogatory, informal, often) Someone who wishes to be someone or do something, but lacks the qualifications or talent; an overeager amateur; an aspirant.
   • Hollywood's restaurants are full of wannabe actors waiting to be discovered.
2. (derogatory, informal) Someone who wishes to be part of, or to assimilate to, a majority group of which they are not a member.
   • Bigger, mongrelly and black, he was clearly a Doberman wannabe.2000, Bill Oddie, Gripping Yarns, page 126