white anglo-saxon protestant. this usually refers to affluent people in the new england area, but also whites of "old money" in other areas throughout the country.

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1) stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.
2) people who usually come from privileged background, typically in the New England area
3) abbreviation for Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, and Pomona (the top four Liberal Arts Colleges in the nation. Strangely, those colleges are full of WASPs themselves)

Everyone who is a PREP and embraces it. For everybody who spends the final weeks of the year tossing the disc or playing lacrosse on the circle of their boarding school, wearing the spring colors from Polo, Lacoste, and Lilly Pulitzer. You tretch through the northeast snow with help from your LL Bean boots and stay warm with their slippers, and yes, the JCrew people do know you by name. You play at least two raquet sports, bonus points for paddle and raquet ball and tend to vacation on the shore, ACK, or Martha's Vineyard. If you pop your pastel polo collars, wear aviators, ribbon belts, and own Nantucket Reds, then this is the group for you. For every girl who wants to get a guy with hockey hair and to the guys who have to keep their blazers on because hey, thats the classy thing to do.you define old money by owning a yacht and a summer house and belong to at least two country clubs.

1) A White Anglo-Saxon Protestant - a person of English descent who follows one of the branches of Protestanism, typically Anglicanism (Church of England); Anglo-Saxon is not be mixed up with just Caucasian, Anglo-Saxon refers to the Germanic invaders who conquered England shortly after the Romans fell from power, thus it refers to strictly to English people and their descendants.

White Anglo-Saxon Protestant.

a. A descendant from English ancestors who was born in America.
b. A typically affluent Connecticut resident.
c. Someone who thinks most catholics are a bunch of blind sheep.

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