Wife beater

Skin tight white vest worn by american latinos.

Wife beater vest as worn by the Peoples character in the remake of Shaft

by DJ Hurtz May 19, 2008

Wife beater

A garment worn which enables the wearer to adopt a pseudo-action venire, extended only by stains, and possible incognito smells. However, if the wearer is a person prone, or tending to act in a less extrovert manner, then he can be seen as a slob, or likeness to the name 'wife-beater'.

Bruce Willis

by Roy February 16, 2003

wife beater

form fitting white ribbed tank top worn by men; looks good on well-built fellas, pathetic on skinny fellas, and disgusting on fat beer bellied fellas

Brad Pitt looks damn good in a wife beater.

by youri August 2, 2003

wife beater

1. Men's close fitting, ribbed, sleeveless white cotton undershirt most commonly used before T-shirts came into vogue as undergarments. It is named wife beater after Marlon Brando's character, Stanley Kowalski, who wore one during much of the movie version of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire." Stanley proved to be a sloppy, drunken, ill-tempered brute who beat his wife.
2. Slang name in Britain for a Belgian lager, Stella Artois, mostly because of the name, Stella, after Stella Kowalski, the victim of a beating from her husband, Stanley, in the aforementioned Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," but also because of the high alcohol content which could possibly lead one to wife beating were he so pre-disposed.

"That fellow wearing the wife beater has knocked back 3 wife beaters in less than half an hour!"

by alfamax September 5, 2011

wife beaters

A tank top usually white

Yo' it's hot as shit outside. I think Ima put on my wife beater.

by L-boogie June 22, 2003

Wife-Beater

In the UK, originally the white string-vest, but most vests/tank tops get reffered to as Wife-Beaters.
The oniginal example was so called due to the fact that the main type of person who wears string-vests was usually a fat, wife-beating, alchoholic.

...look at that fat man in that wife-beater...

by Dj Risq July 2, 2005

wife-beater

The muscle t-shirt that guys wear under their real shirts.

James is wearing a white wife-beater

by Guppie January 22, 2004