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Wife-beater, wifebeater, or wife beater is a slang term for a person who commits domestic violence against his or her wife, or long term female partner. It can also refer to: a type of sleeveless shirt; a nickname for certain alcoholic drinks: Rum, made from sugarcane, sometimes called "the golden wifebeater"
A-shirt is the proper name. When I worked at Montgomery Wards from 1984 to 1986 that was what was on the label. Some guys who bought them just called them T-shirts even thought they don't have sleeves. I didn't hear them called wife beaters until COPS (TV series) which would often show wife beaters wearing wife beaters.
Other slang terms include wifebeater, beater, guinea tee or dago tee (guinea and dago being American ethnic slurs for people of Italian ethnicity). A popular claim regarding the origin of the term 'wifebeater' is that it became synonymous with an undershirt after a Detroit man was reportedly arrested in 1947 for beating his wife to death.
Young fashion influencers on TikTok are re-branding white tank tops and undershirts as "wife pleasers" in an effort to challenge the previous name's association with domestic violence.
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As Spradlin wrestled wearing what is popularly known as a "wifebeater" style of shirt, he began using the ring name "Wife Beater". [3] [unreliable source?] He continued to use the Wife Beater character until a women's group, offended by the gimmick, organized a boycott of a show on which Spradlin was wrestling in Platteville, Wisconsin. [3]
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In 2006, Building #19 put a cartoon in their President's Day advertising flier showing A-shirts (athletic style undershirts) labeled as being "Wife-Beater" shirts. Building #19 was criticized, and promptly apologized. [ 17 ]