Meaning & use

WASP

noun·Advanced

An American of white, Anglo-Saxon, and Protestant background, historically associated with social privilege.

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The novel satirizes the manners of a wealthy WASP family in 1950s Connecticut.

Sociologists once described the country's elite institutions as dominated by WASPs.

A note on using this word

WASP is an acronym for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant and can carry a critical or ironic tone about social class.

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