English Dictionary

wifebeater

noun

One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence. / (US, slang) A kind of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.

He was arrested for wearing a wifebeater.

意味（1）

One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence.

Depp, 57, had sued the Sun’s publisher, News Group Newspapers (NGN), and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, over an article published in the Sun that originally carried the headline “Gone Potty: How can JK Rowling be ‘genuinely happy’ casting wife beater Johnny Depp in the new Fantastic Beasts film?”

意味（2）

(US, slang) A kind of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt.

So, at the first sign of any sunny weather, overweight males all over the country are drawn to their wifebeaters like footy fans to the digibox, with every lager-drinking dad labouring under the illusion that he looks like that gardener from Desperate Housewives in his black vest.

意味（3）

(uncountable, UK, slang) Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer.

And then we were walking back alleys, trudging through the drifts of chip papers, the bottles and empty cans of wifebeater[…]