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wasp; wap
noun- a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant US
The term is applied to whites without particular regard to the religious component. - These “old” Americans are “WASPs”–in the cocktail party jargon of the sociologists. That is, they are white, they are Anglo-Saxon in origin, and they are Protestant (and disproportionately Episcopalian). — American Political Science Review, p. 1010, 1957
- I did meet a wasp there though. — Screw, 4 April 1969
- Fools, boors, philistines, Birchers, B’nai Brithees, Defense Leaguers, Hadassah theater party piranhas, UJAviators, concert-hall Irishmen, WAP ignorati... — Tom Wolfe, Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers, p. 93, 1970
- Christ, there are dozens of firms who will kiss the ass of a WASP who can merely pass the bar. — Erich Segal, Love Story, p. 98, 1970
- These ethnic guys are worse than the wasps; they say, “I made it, why can’t you?” — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 119, 1975
- a white Appalachian southern Protestant US
- By the mid 1950s, WASP was Chicago slang and Ohio Valley social workers’ jargon for white Appalachian Southern Protestants–the poor whites who migrated to the industrial cities of northern Ohio and the Great Lakes. — Maledicta, p. 97, Summer/Winter 1981
- a traffic warden UK
From the yellow band on the uniform hat and sleeves (no doubt influenced by a characteristic intent to “sting” a harmless motorist). - — Christchurch Times (Hampshire), 14 October 1966
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