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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.
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"
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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.
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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.
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