Wasp (disambiguation)
Appearance
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
- Template:Sclass-, 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