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wife-beater

Date: Jun 01 2006

Quote

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“I’m starting to have fun with being a girly girl now. Of course, I still sleep in a wife-beater and men’s boxers.”

Actress Eliza Dushku, talking about her pajamas.

Definition

1. Definition - Study the definition.

a sleeveless athletic shirt; a sleeveless undershirt

2. Use - Learn how the slang is used.

A wife-beater is a type of sleeveless men’s athletic shirt. They are meant to be worn as undershirts, or when exercising, but sometimes you see photographs of celebrities like Brad Pitt or Heath Ledger out on the town in wife-beaters.

The expression wife-beater can be offensive to some people. The term comes from the idea that men who abuse women are low-class and sit at home drinking cheap beer and wearing stained, sleeveless shirts. In the movie Natural Born Killers, Rodney Dangerfield wears a wife-beater and does nothing but drink beer and abuse his family.

Examples

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“He wears a dirty wife-beater all day, every day.”

Winners

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	muscle shirt by mardones
	a kind of underwear by tina.xu
	exactly,it means a kind of white vest. by tina.xu
	loose shirt by hossein99
	sleevless t-shirt worn by both sexes by mwalid
	The word wife-beater is use for tight sleeveless T-shirt(usually white). by mumtaz khan
	i think wife-beater is women underwear :) by web_girl
	it could be some sexy sleepy clothing by justgux
	ı believe that in this sentence it refers to an item of clothing.... by kocakurt
	a sexy blousewear in bed by istvan52
	I think she is mentioning the upper undergarment.Kind of a tank top. by getsetgo