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WASP Definition


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WASP
Wasp
noun
    (N Amer)
    1. often derog
      A white person representing the most privileged class in US society.
Etymology: 1950s: from White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.




wasp
noun
    1. Any of numerous social or solitary stinging insects which have slender black-and-yellow striped bodies and narrow waists, belonging to the same order as bees and ants, and found worldwide.
Derivative: waspy
adj
    Etymology: Anglo-Saxon wæsp.



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