Gonnabe

//ˈɡənəbi// noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who is on the path to becoming famous or important. informal

    "I attribute any success I have to the following educators in my life: New York agent Jim Cypher […] early on taught me that the difference between “wannabes” and “gonnabes” is persistence; […]"

Synonyms

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has-beennever-be

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"I attribute any success I have to the following educators in my life: New York agent Jim Cypher […] early on taught me that the difference between “wannabes” and “gonnabes” is persistence; […]"

Etymology

From gonna (“contraction of going to”) + be, modelled after wannabe.

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