Wasp (disambiguation)
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A wasp is any insect in the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is not a bee or an ant.
Wasp or WASP may also refer to:
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[edit] Aviation
- Pratt & Whitney Wasp, series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
- Westland Wasp, British-built light shipborne helicopter
[edit] Culture
- White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
- The Wasp (magazine), 19th-century San Francisco magazine
- The Wasp (newspaper), 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois
[edit] Fiction
- The Wasps, comic play by Aristophanes
- 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
- Wasp and Waspinator are both Transformers.
[edit] Military
- Westland Wasp, a shipboard anti-submarine helicopter in the 1960s
- Curtiss 18, World War I triplane known as the Curtiss 18 T "Wasp"
- HMS Wasp, any of ten ships of the Royal Navy
- USS Wasp, any of ten ships of the US Navy
- Women Airforce Service Pilots
- AGM-124 Wasp, experimental U.S. air-to-ground anti-armour missile
[edit] Music
- W.A.S.P. (band), American rock/metal band
- W.A.S.P. (album), their self-titled album
- The Wasp (Radio Station), England-based Radio Station
- "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", song by The Doors
- EDP Wasp, monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
- The Wasp (DJ) Glasgow based dj, resident at MONOX and DEVIANT BEHAVIOUR and head honcho in the mighty "smut hut"
[edit] Programming and computers
[edit] Other
- Common wasp, UK term for a species of yellowjacket
- York Wasps, English rugby league club now known as the York City Knights
- London Wasps, English rugby union club
- Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
- Wireless Application Service Provider
- Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome protein
- WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs
- "World Aquanaut Security Patrol" , organization in Stingray (TV series)
- SuperWASP, or "Wide Angle Search for Planets", a British group searching for extra-solar planets.

