Meaning & use
WASP
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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