Does Wasp Stand for?

/ (wɒsp) / n acronym for (in the US) White Anglo-Saxon Protestant: a person descended from N European, usually Protestant stock, forming a group often considered the most dominant, privileged, and influential in American society.

What do the initials WASP stand for?

The acronym WASP derives, of course, from White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, but as acronyms go, this one is more deficient than most. Lots of people, including powerful figures and some presidents, have been white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant but were far from being WASPs.

What does WASP stand for people like us?

In the first of three profiles of specific American classes, People Like Us visits the group that for over a century has been considered to be the top of the social pyramid – the White Anglo Saxon Protestants, or WASPs, whose ways of dressing and acting have been widely imitated.