gonnabe
noun/ˈɡənəbi/UK/ˈɡʌnəbi/US
Etymology
From gonna (“contraction of going to”) + be, modelled after wannabe.
Definitions
One who is on the path to becoming famous or important.
- 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; […]
- Alkaline Trio, New Found Glory, Coheed and Cambria, the Starting Line: all have struggled to meet high expectations, and maybe some of them were relieved to be playing this summer’s Warped Tour, nestled among the wannabes and gonnabes.
- It is doubtful you could instruct Babe Ruth into being a home run king or Usain Bolt into world’s fastest human. They just have something. You can throw money at a wannabe but that won’t make him a gonnabe.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA