Usually means: Stinging insect, often yellow, black.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word WASP:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. wasp: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. WASP, Wasp, wasp: Merriam-Webster
  3. WASP, Wasp, wasp: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. WASP, WASP, WASP, wasp: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wasp: Collins English Dictionary
  6. WASP, wasp: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wasp, wasp: Wordnik
  8. WASP, Wasp, wasp: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. WASP, wasp: Wiktionary
  10. wasp: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. WASP, wasp: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. wasp: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Wasp: Dictionary.com
  14. WASP, wasp: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. wasp: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. The Wasp (magazine), The Wasp, W.A.S.P, W.A.S.P. (album), W.A.S.P. (band), WASP (Winning and Score Predictor), WASP (album), WASP (band), WASP (cricket calculation tool), WASP (disambiguation), WASP, WAsP, Wasp (Hank Pym), Wasp (Marvel Comics), Wasp (album), Wasp (comics), Wasp (disambiguation), Wasp (film), Wasp (novel), Wasp: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Wasp: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. wasp: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. wasp: Rhymezone
  20. Wasp: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. wasp: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Wasp: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. WASP, wasp: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. wasp: FreeDictionary.org
  25. wasp: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. WASP: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. wasp: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BuzzWhack (No longer online)
  2. wasp: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WASP: Netlingo
  2. wasp: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. wasp: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  4. wasp: Medical dictionary
  5. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WASP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. WASP: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Wasp (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. wasp, wasp, wasp, WASP: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Wasp: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  5. W.A.S.P: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Wasp)

▸ noun:  Any of many types of stinging flying insect resembling a hornet.
▸ noun:  (entomology) Any of the members of suborder Apocrita, excepting the ants (family Formicidae) and bees (clade Anthophila).
▸ noun:  Any of the members of the family Vespidae.
▸ noun:  A person who behaves in an angry or insolent way, hence waspishly.
▸ verb:  To move like a wasp; to buzz
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of WASP (“white Anglo-Saxon Protestant”)
▸ noun:  (US) Initialism of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, a member of the supposed ruling class of America.
▸ noun:  (historical) Initialism of Women Airforce Service Pilots.
▸ noun:  Alternative letter-case form of WASP

Similar:
white anglo-saxon protestant, hornet, vespid, warrior wasp, wasp beetle, apple bee, sand wasp, hornet fly, woodwasp, stenogastrine, more...

Types:
paper wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, mud dauber, more...

Phrases:
parasitic wasp, wasp stings, digger wasp, paper wasp, wasp waist, more...

Adjectives:
parasitic, female, little, solitary, common, black, large, small, social, tiny, angry

Colors:
    yellow,     black,     white,     brown,     orange, more...
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Similar:
white anglo-saxon protestant, hornet, vespid, warrior wasp, wasp beetle, apple bee, sand wasp, hornet fly, woodwasp, stenogastrine, more...

Types:
paper wasp, yellow jacket, hornet, mud dauber, more...

Phrases:
parasitic wasp, wasp stings, digger wasp, paper wasp, wasp waist, gall wasp, wasp sting, social wasp, sea wasp, fig wasp, solitary wasp, braconid wasp, ichneumon wasp, wood wasp, common wasp, wasp waists, sand wasp, more...

Adjectives:
parasitic, female, little, solitary, common, black, large, small, social, tiny, angry

Colors:
    yellow,     black,     white,     brown,     orange, more...



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