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wasps
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[wɒsp], (Noun)
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- a social winged insect which has a narrow waist and a sting and is typically yellow with black stripes. It constructs a paper nest from wood pulp and raises the larvae on a diet of insects
- a solitary winged insect with a narrow waist, mostly distantly related to the social wasps and including many parasitic kinds
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Old English wæfs, wæps, wæsp, of West Germanic origin, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin vespa; perhaps related to weave (from the weblike form of its nest)
[wɒsp], (Noun)
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- an upper- or middle-class American white Protestant, considered to be a member of the most powerful group in society
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1960s: acronym from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
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