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- noun Plural form of
wifebeater .
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Examples
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Besides the fact that I'd very much like to sleep just a smidge beyond the ass-crack of dawn, I'm getting tired of being catcalled by sunburned men in wifebeaters every time I'm on the way to my vehicle. girl: Um, I'm sorry.
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This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin; and tattoos."
Why do people hate hipsters? Alex Rayner 2010
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Wife-Beaters. com, a site that sells sleeveless T-shirts also known as "wifebeaters," because his wife was previously abused.
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Mostly I end up with stuff they would like see me in rather than what they would wear, but I got in the habit of wearing wifebeaters all the time because my loudest one wears nothing else.
ceciliatan: OK writers. Question for you. Do you eve ceciliatan 2010
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[I] t seems likely that some white as well as black husbands were beating their wives in Charleston and that the racial differential in arrests there reflected the unwillingness of the police to arrest white wifebeaters. 18
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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The gangbangers, tribal tats peeking out of their gray wifebeaters, looked up.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Clay Bertolet, our neighbor, was floating along the edge of the pool in one of his wifebeaters.
it’s not summer wi thout you Jenny Han 2010
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The gangbangers, tribal tats peeking out of their gray wifebeaters, looked up.
Masked Lou Anders 2010
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Clay Bertolet, our neighbor, was floating along the edge of the pool in one of his wifebeaters.
it’s not summer wi thout you Jenny Han 2010
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Pleck contends that, given the rarity of divorce and the extremely wide range of possible sentences a convicted batterer might face during this era, "the system of formal regulation against wifebeaters was relatively weak and cumbersome whereas the mechanisms for informal regulation were relatively vigorous and extensive."
'Trivial Complaints:' The Role of Privacy in Domestic Violence Law and Activism in the U.S. 2008
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