Wasp
noun/wɒsp/
/wɑːsp/
(also WASP)
(especially North American English, usually disapproving)- a white American whose family originally came from northern Europe and is therefore thought to be from the most powerful section of society (the abbreviation for ‘White Anglo-Saxon Protestant’)
- a privileged Wasp background
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