Wasp
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Any one of numerous species of stinging hymenopterous insects,esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includesthe true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.
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Evil scary yellow and black stripey insect that flies around stinging people and has a nasty little face like Darth Vader, not to be confused with the humble bumble bee who is just a little flying teddy bear that makes jam and gets shit-faced on pollen.
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- stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
- people who usually come from privileged background, typically in the New England area
- abbreviation for Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona (the top four Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation. Strangely, those colleges are full of WASPs themselves)
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Everyone who is a PREP and embraces it. For everybody who spends the final weeks of the year tossing the disc or playing lacrosse on the circle of their boarding school, wearing the spring colors from Polo, Lacoste, and Lilly Pulitzer. You tretch through the northeast snow with help from your LL Bean boots and stay warm with their slippers, and yes, the JCrew people do know you by name. You play at least two raquet sports, bonus points for paddle and raquet ball and tend to vacation on the shore, ACK, or Marthas Vineyard. If you pop your pastel polo collars, wear aviators, ribbon belts, and own Nantucket Reds, then this is the group for you. For every girl who wants to get a guy with hockey hair and to the guys who have to keep their blazers on because hey, thats the classy thing to do.you define old money by owning a yacht and a summer house and belong to at least two country clubs.
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A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant - a person of English descent who follows one of the branches of Protestanism, typically Anglicanism (Church of England); Anglo-Saxon is not be mixed up with just Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon refers to the Germanic invaders who conquered England shortly after the Romans fell from power, thus it refers to strictly to English people and their descendants.
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Historically an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, but used traditionally and frequently to mean White Affluent Schooled Person(s), regardless of a precise national origin or specific christian denomination or religion. Especially relevant in references to persons or families with old money ties in positions of certain power, notably those residing in certain pockets on the East Coast.
Commonly used with an inherently negative connotation by non-WASPS.
The term is often associated and used interchangeably in reference to the perceived subculture of Prep, Preppy, Prepdom because of historical and unmistakable ties.
The acronym wasp has not become commercialized as greatly as the perceived prep lifestyle through clothing companies which try to sell this lifestyle to the aspiring common populace who strive to overcome the reality of exclusivity. -
white [anglo-saxon] [protestant]. this usually refers to affluent people in the new england area, but also whites of [old money] in other areas throughout the country.
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A flying insect that will [sting] you. Resembles a [honey bee] except bigger and they wont lose their [stinger] when they sting so that means one could sting you multiple times.
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An [angry bee] that does not make honey. Basically [a bee] that is an asshole.
The term [wasp] is typically defined as any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor an ant.
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