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Wasps

A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

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noun

1
A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
2
A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.

noun

1
Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
2
Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
3
A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

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white anglo-saxon protestantnoun	a white person of anglo-saxon ancestry who belongs to a protestant denomination
aculeatenoun	(entomology) Having a stinger; stinging.
beesnoun	Alternative letter-case form of bees.
daubernoun	(derogatory) One who, or that which, daubs; especially, a coarse, unskillful painter.
diggernoun	A large piece of machinery that digs holes or trenches.
honeybeesnoun	Alternative form of honey bee. [Any of seven species of bee, in genus Apis, often kept commercially for honey, beeswax, and pollination of crops.]
jacketsnoun	A piece of clothing worn on the upper body outside a shirt or blouse, often waist length to thigh length.
sphecidnoun	A wasp in the Sphecidae family.
sphecoid	Of or pertaining to wasps formerly classified in the superfamily Sphecoidea (corresponding to all wasps in Apoidea), now sometimes treated as the series Spheciformes.
vespidnoun	Any social insect of the family Vespidae including wasps and hornets
beetlesnoun	Any of numerous species of insect in the order Coleoptera characterized by a pair of hard, shell-like front wings which cover and protect a pair of rear wings when at rest.
insectsnoun	a 2009 album released by Gibraltarian flamenco/metal quintet Breed 77.
antsnoun	an Estonian masculine given name.
mothsnoun	Any flying insect of the order Lepidoptera not in the superfamily Papilionoidea, most species of which are nocturnal and can be distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
aphidsnoun	a feminist art collective from Melbourne, Australia currently comprising Lara Thoms and Mish Grigor.
caterpillarsnoun	The larva of a butterfly or moth; leafworm.
pestsnoun	Any destructive insect that attacks crops or livestock; an agricultural pest.
mitesnoun	MITES, or MIT Introduction to Engineering and Science, is a highly selective six-week summer program for rising high school seniors held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
hornetsnoun	Any large wasp of the genus Vespa, having a brown-and-yellow-striped body and the ability to inflict a serious sting.
borersnoun	A tool used for drilling.