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WASP
Definitions
(Abbreviation) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant(Abbreviation) Wide Area Surveillance Projectile
(Abbreviation) Widebody Airborne Sensor Program
(Abbreviation) Williams Aerial Systems Platform
(Abbreviation) Wireless Application Service Provider
(Abbreviation) Wireless Applications Service Provider
(Abbreviation) Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome Protein
(Abbreviation) Women Airforce Service Pilots
(Abbreviation) Women Armed for Self Protection
(Abbreviation) Women's Auxiliary Service Pilot
(Abbreviation) World Aquanaut Security Patrol
Obsolete, 19 th century British word for a prostitute infected with a sexually transmitted disease.
QUOTE: Captain Francis Grose in Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1811) as: ' An infected prostitute, who like a wasp carries a sting in her tail.'
(Abbreviation) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
(Abbreviation) White Anglo-Saxon ProtestantWB
(Abbreviation) Women's Army Service Pilots
united states aircraft carrier, sunk in world war 2
(Noun) It's a type of animal belonging to the class Insecta
(Abbreviation) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Sometimes a mere sociological observation, sometimes slightly contemptuous, sometimes in praise.
Usage: WASP sometimes, but not always, has faintly high-class connotations. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was a member of the WASP aristocracy; Lyndon Johnson, though technically a WASP, wouldn't normally be described as such.
(Abbreviation) White Anglo Saxon Person
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