wifebeater
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wifebeater
Where it comes from
From wife + beater. The sleeveless shirt acquired the nickname by association with men who commit domestic violence. The lager, being relatively strong, was thought to lead to drunken disputes.
noun wifebeaters · wife beater · wife-beater
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One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.
Depp, 57, had sued the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article published in the Sun that originally carried the headline “Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?
Similar: abusive husband
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A type of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.
[A]s I walked down the bustling street toward campus with my friends, he came out of nowhere and gave me a pick-up line only a wifebeater guy could muster.
Similar: A-shirt, athletic shirt, beater, muscle shirt, singlet, tank top, vest
- Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer. And then we were walking back alleys, trudging through the drifts of chip papers, the bottles and empty cans of wifebeater[…]
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noun a kind of sleeveless shirt; singlet
| Português | regata |
|---|---|
| Русский | майка-алкоголичка majka-alkogolička, алкоголичка alkogolička |
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@misc{wifebeater_2026,
title = {wifebeater},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wifebeater},
urldate = {2026-11-06}
}
