It is a retractible metal baton used by law inforcement officers. A new version of a night stick, or billy club.
But crack
asps
Application Service Providers (ASPs)
As of July 2014, the market cap for Altisource Portfolio Solutions S.A. (ASPS) is $2,633,350,271.04.
Yes
The ASPS have produced results for how many doctors who perform plastic surgery belong to the ASPS and its stated to be more that 94% which is a very succesful and reasurring point for the patient. Its always wise to check for your own protection if a surgeon belongs or not.
Cleopatra was killed by Asps.
No, only rattlesnakes have rattles on their tails.
Cleopatra got bitten by asps in the shoulder. The actual site was her lower left arm - that is, if you believe the tale about the asps. (It was Shakespeare who had them bite her breasts.) Some believe that she swallowed a highly toxic, and quick, cocktail of poisons. Still others believe she was quietly assassinated. We will ever know; even the ancient historians were in disagreement.
Astr + asci, asea, ashy, asks, asps
An asp is one of various types of snake, a water snake, a viper, or the European cobra.
Asps (plural) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asp_(reptile)