An adjective used to describe someone who is jacked and has just the right chest and ab muscles to fit perfectly into a wife beater. In addition to chest and abs, arms (biceps, triceps, and deltoids) must also be tone and muscular. Obtained by using the bench-press and doing push-ups.
JT: Dude, going to the gym is going to get us to wife-beater-status!
KD: Yeah man, got to keep hitting the bench-press.
JT: Don't forget about push-ups.
The term is slang for a sleeveless white T-shirt – the kind famously worn by Sylvester Stallone in Rocky and Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire. Its reputation comes from those wearing the shirts while engaged in domestic violence.
When you spot the most run downed car or truck (any other kind of transportation out there) EVER and you don't want to call it what it really is ( fugly, shit). Instead you take the easy route and say " Daymn you got's a wife beater car right thurr".
The term is not offending anyone, it's just a way of saying that your car is beat up and crappy. But in a nicer way =D
Your friend pulls up in a crapola car and your like..
Pablo- " HOLY BEEJEEBUS MAN, you have a wife beater car"
Henray-" PSSHT like your car is any better, I've seen those stains in the back seat"
Pablo- " Oh yee your mom and I were ... making cupcakes"
Henray-" ... truce"