Source : WordNet®

wannabee
     n : an ambitious and aspiring young person; "a lofty aspirant";
         "two executive hopefuls joined the firm"; "the audience
         was full of Madonna wannabes" [syn: {aspirant}, {aspirer},
          {hopeful}, {wannabe}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

wannabee
     
        /won'*-bee/ (Or, more plausibly, spelled "wannabe") [Madonna
        fans who dress, talk, and act like their idol; probably
        originally from biker slang] A would-be {hacker}.  The
        connotations of this term differ sharply depending on the age
        and exposure of the subject.  Used of a person who is in or
        might be entering {larval stage}, it is semi-approving; such
        wannabees can be annoying but most hackers remember that they,
        too, were once such creatures.  When used of any professional
        programmer, CS academic, writer, or {suit}, it is derogatory,
        implying that said person is trying to cuddle up to the hacker
        mystique but doesn't, fundamentally, have a prayer of
        understanding what it is all about.  Overuse of hacker terms
        is often an indication of the {wannabee} nature.  Compare
        {newbie}.
     
        Historical note: The wannabee phenomenon has a slightly
        different flavour now (1993) than it did ten or fifteen years
        ago.  When the people who are now hackerdom's tribal elders
        were in {larval stage}, the process of becoming a hacker was
        largely unconscious and unaffected by models known in popular
        culture - communities formed spontaneously around people who,
        *as individuals*, felt irresistibly drawn to do hackerly
        things, and what wannabees experienced was a fairly pure,
        skill-focussed desire to become similarly wizardly.  Those
        days of innocence are gone forever; society's adaptation to
        the advent of the microcomputer after 1980 included the
        elevation of the hacker as a new kind of folk hero, and the
        result is that some people semi-consciously set out to *be
        hackers* and borrow hackish prestige by fitting the popular
        image of hackers.  Fortunately, to do this really well, one
        has to actually become a wizard.  Nevertheless, old-time
        hackers tend to share a poorly articulated disquiet about the
        change; among other things, it gives them mixed feelings about
        the effects of public compendia of lore like this one.
     
        [{Jargon File}]