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...

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

wife-beater by Guppie January 22, 2004

Wife-beater 

Stella Artois

Frank: I might go to the shop and buy a few cans
Danny: Wot u drinking
Frank: wife beater

Wife-beater by reppo June 27, 2003

wife-beater 

A abusive husband/boyfriend/lover who enjoys to abusive his beatiful wife. Often beats her with pillows,stuffed animals,his fist,and the back of his hand.

Husband:DAmn woman give me my f*****g breakfast
Wife: It's on the table get it yourself u damn immmigrant, im feeding the baby, doing the laundry, washing your nasty socks, nd feedeing dat damn dog...SPRINKLES get ur ass over here nd eat your damn food!
Husband:WOman! dont make me go wife-beater on you!
Wife: I wish you would...see what would happen...i wonder who would make your breakfast then.

wife-beater by samela March 28, 2008

wife-beater 

something typically worn by guidos (b/c they're wife beaters). people who wear them can be all kinds of people not just guidos

Jim: Bob, look, a fat guido is wearing a wife-beater!
Bob: Cool, i will go get my baseball bat.

wife-beater by wigger/guido hater March 29, 2008

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.

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!"

wife beater by alfamax September 5, 2011