wifebeater

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats his wife, or a husband prone to violence. countable,uncountable
    — 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?”
  2. A type of sleeveless shirt, often but not exclusively worn as an undershirt. US,colloquial,countable,derogatory,uncountable
    — [A]s I walked down the bustling street toward campus with my friends, he came out of nowhere and gave me a pick-up line only a wifebeater guy could muster.
  3. Stella Artois, a brand of lager beer. UK,colloquial,uncountable
    — And then we were walking back alleys, trudging through the drifts of chip papers, the bottles and empty cans of wifebeater[…]

词形变化

wifebeaters plural wife beater alternative wife-beater alternative

词汇关系

相关词
wife-beating question

词源

From wife + beater. The sleeveless shirt acquired the nickname by association with men who commit domestic violence. The lager, being relatively strong, was thought to lead to drunken disputes.
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