Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A waist so tightly laced as to resemble the nearly divided body of a wasp.
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Examples
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You've got your virtually indestructible General Products hull, in this case a #2 model: a 300 feet long cylinder, 20 feet wide, pointed at both ends and with a wasp-waist constriction near the tail (cheers, wikipedia) - and it's transparent, for the best possible views.
MIND MELD: The Best Spaceships in Written Science Fiction 2010
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McCoy was the littlest one in the company, a wasp-waist doll barely five feet high.
Archive 2010-05-01 Janice Hardy 2010
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McCoy was the littlest one in the company, a wasp-waist doll barely five feet high.
How They Do It: Guest Blogger Lydia Sharp on The Long and the Short of it Janice Hardy 2010
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If you're as obsessive as Barack supposably is about keeping his wasp-waist, you can use low-fat Mayo boring! or Vegganaise, a handy-dandy vegan alternative.
Plate Lunch Macaroni Salad: The Top-Secret Recipe From Hawai'i Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008
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If you're as obsessive as Barack supposably is about keeping his wasp-waist, you can use low-fat Mayo boring! or Vegganaise, a handy-dandy vegan alternative.
Archive 2008-11-21 Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008
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And though Cyprus-born designer Hussein Chalayan called his wasp-waist 1950s silk party dresses shredded in tatters "an unfortunate coincidence," some editors wept at the sight of them -- a poignant commentary on the beauty of the Towers and New York's shattered innocence.
Vive La Mode! 2007
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Thus, lots of its new campaign will involve a design that's embossed on the mass-consciousness of all Americans, if not all humans: the very retro "wasp-waist" shape of the Georgia glass bottle.
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Thus, lots of its new campaign will involve a design that's embossed on the mass-consciousness of all Americans, if not all humans: the very retro "wasp-waist" shape of the Georgia glass bottle.
Faces Of The Week: Mar. 27-31, 2006Forbes Faces Of The Week: Mar. 27-31, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006
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Guy wakes up as a girl – a buxom, wasp-waist female version of himself.
Archive 2006-02-01 David Campbell 2006
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He made out North and South America and the wasp-waist that joined them, and he wondered how the Captain Morgan fared.
The Life of the World to Come Baker, Kage 2004
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