Definition of "wanna" []

• Informal Contraction of want to: You wanna go now?
• Informal Contraction of want a: You wanna slice of pie?

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• "With too much pride & ego, the person could be a fukin 'wanna be."
• "* edited again to add -- well, come to think of it, I'm actually a long-term wanna-be Labour voter."
• "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 …"