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Madonnabe
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English
Alternative forms
en Madonna-be
Etymology
en Madonna wannabe.
Noun
en informal A person (usually female) who dresses or acts like American singer-songwriter and actress Madonna (Madonna Louise Ciccone; born 1958).
en Sara Sherr Pat Benatar CMJ New Music Monthly 80 April 2000 94 After Pat Benatar made room on MTV for the far-more-calculated Madonna and her younger Madonnabes, the rest of the freaks and geeks vanished too, and so did I in a way.
en Richard B. Schwartz Proof of Purchase A Jack Grant Mystery Woodbury, Minn. Midnight Ink 2007 124 978-0-7387-0829-4 Two retro Madonnabes in black bras and lace panty girdles walked by, snapping their gum and playing with their costume-jewelry necklaces.
en Jacqueline Cutler The ’80’s: The Decade That Made Us TVWeek The Miami Herald 14 April 2013 46TV https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/655233439/ No one would accuse the “Madonnabes” – the women who copied the pop star – of being demure.
Further reading
Madonna wannabe
en eponyms