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The correct spelling is wasps. A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

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  1. 1.A member of the dominant American upper-class culture: a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
  2. 2.A member of the Women Airforce Service Pilots.
  3. 3.Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
  4. 4.Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
  5. 5.A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspish.

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