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A wasp is a type of flying insect.
Wasp or WASP may also refer to:
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Insects
- Common wasp or Vespula vulgaris, a wasp found in much of the Northern Hemisphere
- German wasp or Vespula germanica, a wasp native to Europe, northern Africa, and temperate Asia
- Mud daubers, the common name for several wasps that build their nests from mud
- Yellowjacket, the common name in North America for predatory wasps of the genera Vespula and Dolichovespula
Aviation
- Pratt & Whitney Wasp, series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
- Westland Wasp, British-built light shipborne helicopter
- Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
- Williams Aerial Systems Platform, also known as the "flying pulpit"
Culture
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant
- The Wasp (magazine), 19th-century San Francisco magazine
- The Wasp (newspaper), 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois
Fiction
- Wasp (novel), by Eric Frank Russell
- Wasp (comics), Marvel Comics character
- Wasp (film), by Andrea Arnold
- The Wasp (film), 1915 short by B. Reeves Eason
- The Wasps, comic play by Aristophanes
- Waspinator, sometimes Wasp, several Transformers characters
- World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray
Military
- Westland Wasp, a shipboard anti-submarine helicopter in the 1960s
- Curtiss 18 Wasp, World War I triplane
- HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Wasp, several ships of the U.S. Navy
- Women Airforce Service Pilots
- AGM-124 Wasp, experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile
- The Wasp, a Flame tank used by Canadians in WWII
Music
- W.A.S.P. (band), American rock/metal band
- W.A.S.P. (album), their self-titled album
- "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors
- EDP Wasp, monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
- The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Programming and computers
Other
- WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
- Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
- York Wasps, English rugby league club now known as the York City Knights
- London Wasps, English rugby union club
- Wireless Application Service Provider
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
- WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs
- SuperWASP, or Wide Angle Search for Planets, a British group searching for extra-solar planets
- WASP (AM), AM radio station located in Brownsville, Pennsylvania
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