Wasp (disambiguation)

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A wasp is a type of flying insect.

A common meaning of WASP is White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

Wasp or WASP may also refer to:

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Wasp (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Wasp, Lisbeth Salander's kickboxing ringname and hacker handle, and she has a wasp tattoo on her neck
• Waspinator or Wasp, several Transformers characters
• World Aquanaut Security Patrol, an organization in the television series Stingray

Films

• Wasp (film), a film by Andrea Arnold
• The Wasp (film), a 1915 short by B. Reeves Eason

Literature

• Wasp (novel), a novel by Eric Frank Russell
• The Wasps, a comic play by Aristophanes

Periodicals

• The Wasp (magazine), a 19th-century San Francisco magazine
• The Wasp (newspaper), a 19th-century newspaper published in Nauvoo, Illinois

Music

• EDP Wasp, a monophonic synthesizer by Electronic Dream Plant
• "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)", a song by The Doors
• The Wasps (Vaughan Williams), a 1909 suite for orchestra composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams
• W.A.S.P., an American rock/metal band
  • W.A.S.P. (album), their eponymous album
• "W.A.S.P.", a song from the Dayglo Abortions album, Two Dogs Fucking
• Wasp (album), an album by Shaun Cassidy

Aviation

• ABC Wasp, a British World War I aero engine by ABC Motors
• AeroVironment Wasp III, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) developed for United States Air Force special forces
• Airspeed Queen Wasp, British unmanned target-aircraft
• Curtiss 18 Wasp, a little-used American triplane fighter of World War I
• Pratt & Whitney Wasp series, a series of piston engines common in the 1930s and 1940s
• Westland Wasp, a British-built light shipborne helicopter
• Women Airforce Service Pilots, World War II American female aviators
• Williams Aerial Systems Platform, from Williams International
• Wasp Flight Systems, a British powered hang glider manufacturer
  • Wasp SP Mk2, a British powered hang glider design

Ships at sea

• HMS Wasp, several ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Wasp, several ships of the United States Navy
• Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, ships of the United States Navy

Road transport

• Hudson Wasp, 1950s, American automobile
• Wasp Motorcycles, British motorcycle and sidecar manufacturer

Weapons

• AGM-124 Wasp, an American experimental air-to-ground anti-tank missile
• Wasp, a variant of the Universal Carrier armored vehicle that was armed with a flamethrower
• Wasp 58, a Recoilless rocket launcher

Information technology

• Web Standards Project
• WAsP, Wind Atlas Analysis and Application Program
• Wireless Application Service Provider

Sport

• Wasps FC, an amateur English rugby union club
• Wasps Ladies, an English women's rugby union club
• Wasps RFC, a professional English rugby union club based in the Coventry area (known from 1999–2014 as London Wasps)
• York Wasps, former English rugby league club
• Chalfont Wasps F.C., English football club
• Durham Wasps, former British ice–hockey team
• Newport Wasps, British speedway team
• Emory & Henry Wasps, NCAA Division III intercollegiate sport team
• WASP (cricket calculation tool), an algorithm used in limited overs cricket matches to predict the outcome of games

Other uses

• Wasp, Pleasants County, West Virginia, a community in the United States
• Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein
• WASP-LP, a low-power radio station (104.5 FM) licensed to serve Huntington, West Virginia, United States
• WASP (AM), a defunct radio station (1130 AM) formerly licensed to serve Brownsville, Pennsylvania, United States
• Washington State Patrol (WaSP)
• Workers and Socialist Party, a South African political party

See also

• Wasp waist, silhouette given by a style of corset
• SuperWASP, or Wide Angle Search for Planets, a British group searching for extra-solar planets
• WWASP, World Wide Association of Specialty Programs