Definitions
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- Contraction of want to.
- Contraction of want a.
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- phrase
Eye dialect spelling ofwant to . - phrase
Eye dialect spelling ofwant a .
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Examples
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With too much pride & ego, the person could be a fukin 'wanna be.
D drives A bonkers. Jessica Hagy 2007
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* edited again to add -- well, come to think of it, I'm actually a long-term wanna-be Labour voter.
for the first time, I'm waiting eagerly for my area to declare jinty 2005
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The way I see it, when Brittany and Justin wanna go pick strawberries all f cukin day with Courtney, Bethany, and Triston on behalf of Miquel and and whatver his sister’s name was and that parrot of theirs …
Think Progress » Armey Accuses ‘Destructive’ Tancredo Of ‘Alienating’ Hispanics 2010
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The strangest part I’ve experienced is most republicans are largely ordinary ‘wannabe’s’ as in wanna be rich, famous, successfull businessmen and are so easily sold the propaganda that profitability will rub off on them as they labor away at making the nooses with which to hang their countrymen down through their own children.
Think Progress » Conservatives Bow to Industry, Block Amendment to Scan All Shipping Containers 2006
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Which, maybe when other people hear it, they hear this sleepy, dreamy, or whatever the word you wanna use is.
Ben Evans: A Talk With Papercuts' Jason Quever Ben Evans 2011
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Which, maybe when other people hear it, they hear this sleepy, dreamy, or whatever the word you wanna use is.
Ben Evans: A Talk With Papercuts' Jason Quever Ben Evans 2011
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The entire poem extends and sustains this image of destruction to develop the character of what Julie describes as a wanna be lover; he is just chipping chipping shady as a fox to get some piece of you, anything . . .
Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Al Gore wins a Nobel Prize for projecting global warming, and gets called a wanna-be for his efforts.
enowning enowning 2007
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Al Gore wins a Nobel Prize for projecting global warming, and gets called a wanna-be for his efforts.
Archive 2007-10-01 enowning 2007
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What shouldve happened was your Little weak ass shouldve went to jail for going on the square with all 1 of those so-called wanna-be LOUD-ASS Generals acting a complete fool!
Guckenberger: "Fuck The Police" Not Obscene Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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