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.
"Check out that due in the dingy wife-beater shirt."
by The Trash Man May 23, 2014
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