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  2. Wife-beater - Wikipedia

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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"

  3. Talk:Wifebeater (shirt) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Sleeveless shirt - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. What are ‘wife pleasers’? TikTok fashion influencers are ...

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    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.

  6. List of nicknames in basketball - Wikipedia

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    United States men's national basketball team, 1992 – "The Dream Team" [248] United States men's national basketball team, 2008 – "The Redeem Team" [249] Canada men's national basketball team – "The Road Warriors" [250] Spain national basketball team – La ÑBA [251] Turkey national basketball team – Oniki Dev Adam ("12 Giant Men") [252]

  7. Chris Hero - Wikipedia

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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]

  8. 'Front-row seats to something amazing': In 2024, the sports ...

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    Patrick Mahomes threw a walk-off pass to win the Super Bowl. Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam to win a World Series game. Stephen Curry said “nuit, nuit” to win an Olympic basketball ...

  9. Building 19 - Wikipedia

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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 ]