wasp

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a flying insect, often black and yellow, that can sting (= produce a small, painful skin injury):

There's a wasps' nest in that old tree.

a wasp sting

abbreviation for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a white American whose family originally came from northern Europe, and is therefore part of a group often considered as having the most influence and the most money in American society:

My mother comes from an old WASP family which has been in this country for 350 years.

a flying insect that is able to sting repeatedly

abbreviation for white Anglo-Saxon Protestant (= a white, Protestant American whose family originally came from northwestern Europe)