wife beater

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English

Noun

wife beater (countable and uncountable, plural wife beaters)

  1. Alternative spelling of wifebeater
    • 2007 November 15, Victoria Moore, “Where did it all go wrong for the beer they call 'wife beater'?”, in The Daily Mail:
      The drink, which at 5.2 per cent alcohol is stronger than many other lagers and therefore makes people drunker and sometimes more aggressive more quickly, has acquired the unflattering soubriquet of "wife beater".